Hi Rob I presume this is for your LTSP server?
Have a trawl through the LTSP <LTSP discuss> mailing list over on SourceForge - I seem to remember that someone had a similar problem on a Ubuntu installation just before Xmas and a work around was provided. Ian -----Original Message----- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 30 January 2009 17:16 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clearing home directory at logout On 30/01/2009 16:51, Andrew Oakley wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear out the home directory on >> Ubuntu when a user logs out? >> > > See below. Public domain, do as you like. > > By default the script will assume the username "visitor". You can pass a > different username as a parameter if you wish. > > I use this to create a customised Gnome guest account, for when I lend > my laptop to someone. I don't like Ubuntu 8.10's built-in guest account, > since it presents the user with an entirely vanilla uncustomised > environment. I prefer to customise the environment to make it more > friendly to first-time users; for example, I have it load the Firefox > browser straight away, since that's what 99% of visitors want to use. > > Andrew Oakley > Head of Software Development > Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) > 95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HZ > > ---- begin loadguest ---- > > #!/bin/bash > > # Loadguest by Andrew Oakley www.aoakley.com public domain 2009-01-30 > # > # Resets the home directory back to a predetermined default > # Requires saveguest to be run first > # Ideal for a guest account > # Default username is visitor instead of guest , since guest is used > # for the built-in guest account from Ubuntu 8.10 > # > # Save this as /usr/local/bin/loadguest , chmod 755 > # Add the following to /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default: > > # if [[ "$LOGNAME" == "visitor" ]] > > # then > > # /usr/local/bin/loadguest > > # fi > > defaultusername=visitor > username=$1 > > if [[ "$username" == "" ]] > > then > > username=$defaultusername > > fi > > if [[ -f /home/$username.tar.gz ]] > > then > > cd /home > > rm -rf $username/* > > tar xvfz /home/$username.tar.gz > > else > > echo "/home/$username.tar.gz does not exist or is not a regular file" > > fi > > ---- end loadguest ---- > ---- start saveguest ---- > > #!/bin/bash > > # Saveguest by Andrew Oakley www.aoakley.com public domain 2009-01-30 > # Saves a Gnome login session and indeed an entire home directory > # MUST BE RUN AS ROOT eg. sudo saveguest > # Requires loadguest > # > # Save this as /usr/local/sbin/saveguest , chmod 755 > # Then log in as the user you wish to set up, THEN LOG OUT > # Then run this as root eg. sudo saveguest > defaultusername=visitor > username=$1 > > if [[ "$username" == "" ]] > > then > > username=$defaultusername > fi > > if [[ -d /home/$username ]] > > then > > cd /home > > mv -f $username.tar.gz $username-old.tar.gz > > tar cvfz $username.tar.gz $username --exclude="*/.thumbnails/*" > --exclude="*ca > che*" > > else > > echo "/home/$username does not exist or is not a directory" > > echo "Usage: saveguest [username]" > > echo "Assumes username 'visitor' if no username supplied" > > fi > > ---- end saveguest ---- > > Ahh thanks Andrew, it looks like this will do exactly what I want, not sure if it work with the PostSession, I couldn't seem to get anything in PostSession to work but it should at least work with GDM Watchdog. I'll post back if I can get it working. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
