[K12OSN] Generic Accounts?

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That's how our district does it w/ our boxes.  Works out pretty well.

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Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> Another option is to put a sticker on the monitor connected to the
> terminal that says
>
> Username: guest27
> Password: guest27-pass
>
> or something. Then students are pretty likely to log in using the
> password and username you've provided.
>
> 2008/10/12 Millard Hill <millard.hill at gmail.com>:
>   
>> I am setting up Linux thin clients for Atlanta Public School System (RHEL 5
>> network attached storage servers for home directories when we implement that
>> and CentOS 5 application servers) and we are also using autologin (kiosk
>> mode).  We have also setup print and USB access for them to save there data
>> to a thumb drive or print it out.  We presently aren't saving data on the
>> server, but our next upgrade of the system will allow for individual login
>> accounts.
>>
>> To setup up autologin you can make changes to your gdm config file (in our
>> instance, /etc/gdm/custom.conf), to set it up to log in automatically.  We
>> have given the thin client name the same name as the hostname which is all
>> determined by DHCP, so the studfents don't even have to know the hostname
>> they are logged in as, nor do they know the server that they are logged into
>> (we have anywhere from 2-5 application servers at each school).
>>
>> If you want more details let me know as this is a district wide initiative,
>> which is centrally managed, so I may be able to you steer clear of other
>> issues that you may run into.
>>
>> Millard Hill III
>> Linux Engineer
>> Atlanta Public Schools
>> millard.hill at gmail.com
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Jamie Lists <jamielist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> We're sprinkling LTSP clients all over a school in my district. I need
>>> to have a generic account for kids to use.
>>> The problem is if i make one account called student for instance. They
>>> all have the same home directory, which is bad.
>>> The only other way i can think of is to make 50 generic accounts and
>>> then tell the kids.. ok on this client you need to login as student38.
>>> Doesn't seem like such a great solution.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>  Jamie
>>>
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