> Is it possible to configure thin clients so that they boot directly to > the desktop without prompting for a username or password?
Don't take this as your final answer, it's just my experiences (which are mostly from Debian, from before Ubuntu, and might be better solutions now). And this relies on some scripting/sudo/su/X knowledge. I imagine there is kiosk setups/distros/packages you might look at that would be easier to set up than this solution. -- You can enter GDM configuration with the usual GDM configuration tool and set it to auto-login to a specific account. The problem with this is that everybody will share an account, which might cause problems with launching firefox for instance. Auto-logging into different accounts, one per thin-client, is more tricky (I think). If you don't want documents and settings preserved between sessions you can use what we use for our "guest" account setup (not exactly plug and play, relies on installing custom non-Ubuntu scripts): http://fredtun.modula.no/ltsp/index.htm If you want the documents preserved then it would be possible to emulate the strategy used there (put something early in /etc/X11/Xsession.d that detects that the username is "thinclient", and change the session to run as the thin clients name instead, extractable from the $DISPLAY environment variable). However, using thin-clients I'd rather set up a shared storage area and link to it in the template guest profile, than locking the documents to the physical work place... // Dag Sverre Seljebotn -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
