[K12OSN] K12LTSP Chrooted Environment Misunderstanding

[Todd O'Bryan]

The system in the chroot environment is very basic--it's just enough
stuff to get the terminal up and running. Once the terminal is running
a basic OS, it connects to the server and acts as a remote X session.
When you log in on the terminal, you're logging onto the server, not
the chroot environment that's running on the terminal. The idea is
that a terminal that can only run basic stuff gets the full power of a
much nicer server, because everything really runs on the server. The
terminal is just a way of viewing the server processes.

There is a way to get to the chroot environment that's running on the
terminal--if I remember correctly, Ctrl-Alt-F1 will display a console
that really is running on the terminal. But you'd only use that to
debug problems, not as a normal operating mode.

Todd

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:40 PM, murrah boswell<otrcomm at isp-systems.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I know everyone is busy and excited about Fedora 11 K12Linux, but I am
> attached to the K12LTSP system and have a couple of questions. I know these
> are questions out of antiquity for some people who have been with K12LTSP
> from the beginning, but please humor me here.
>
> I must have a misunderstanding about the /opt/ltsp/i386 chrooted environment
> apparently. From a client terminal, when I right click on the desktop and
> select to Create Launcher, Browse for Command and select File System, why is
> it that the client terminal has full visibility of the server file system
> and not just the chrooted environment? Same is true of a Terminal window; I
> have total visibility of the server file system.
>
> Is there a reason why the K12LTSP isn't truly a chrooted environment?
>
> Along the same questioning, how do I install an application, such as
> linphone, in the chrooted environment and force the client to use "local"
> instantiation of linphone and not allow them to even see the server based
> instantiation of linphone?
>
>
> Regards,
> Murrah Boswell
>
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