Re: guest account and kerberos

[Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 5:41 PM Lorenzo Ceriani <lceriani73@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am very happy of our new Debian-edu computer lab, everything is running smooth even if the machine are old enough. 

I have just some help requests: 

1. I need a passwordless guest account on every client which erase all data on every login or logout (useful for doing national online exams) For the moment i created a local account with the same name on every client with adduser *** and then passwd -d ***.

Still to do the erasing part, but for the moment it seems ok. Can this create problems with debian-edu?

It is not clear how you create those local accounts, so cannot say whether they create any problem.

There is nothing in the debian-edu docs about guest accounts (yet).

However, debian-edu is based on the LTSP project, and there are some blogs/discussions about guest accounts here and there. For example:

- http://www.m-opensolutions.com/ltsp-guest-accounts-and-mate-desktop-setup/

- https://dashohoxha.fs.al/ltsp-scenarios/#org3535561

- https://github.com/ltsp/ltsp/discussions/298

I have also used guest accounts in another similar context:

- https://gitlab.com/docker-scripts/debian-desktop/-/blob/main/inject/setup-user-accounts.sh#L84

Maybe these can give some hints about how to develop your own solution.

If you find a suitable solution, please let us know how you did it.

Regards,

Dashamir

 

2. I would like to avoid that (kerberos?) dialog box that ofteh/always asks for a password after login. It confounds pupils... :-)

Thanks in advance for your advice!

L.