[X2go-dev] x2gothinclient w/o LDAP

[Moritz Struebe]

Hi Mike,

Am 06.04.2011 14:38, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
> Hi Morty,
>
> I have a customer that has patched the x2gothinclient to use local 
> session profile files. On the way he discovered that X2go thin client 
> systems do not have the loop network device set up. Could you give 
> your opinion on that?
>
> File: "/etc/init.d/ramdrive"
>
> after:  cat /proc/mounts>  /ramdrive/mtab
>         # setup lo interface
>         ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0

A loopback scold be available. [1]


>
>
> He also has modified the thinclient script in a way that you can run 
> x2goclient on the thin client without LDAP. He provides a session 
> profile ,,sessions file'' and puts that into ~/.x2goclient/sessions. 
> But he also need some fixes for that.

Yes. I did that manually. :)

>
> Maybe we see an option to incorporate this in the x2gothinclient, so 
> that both methods are available in the code and it merely needs some 
> commenting and uncommenting or whatsoever to enable/disable 
> LDAP/sessions-file.

I am very inn  favour of that.

>
> Here are the changes he proposes:
>
> ############################################################################### 
>
>
> Datei "/etc/default/x2gothinclient"
>
> x2goclient --external-login=/ramdrive/logins --no-menu --maximize 
> --link=lan --kbd-layout=de --kbd-type=pc105/de --set-kbd=1 
> --geometry=fullscreen --add-to-known-hosts 
> --read-exports-from=/ramdrive/export

Actually you want to get rid of all the ramdrive-stuff and put that into 
the x2go-home (My script mounts that using tmpfs). Also you probably 
want "--no-session-edit".


>
> ############################################################################### 
>
>
> mkdir -p /home/image/x2goclient/.x2goclient/
> Create file: /home/image/x2goclient/.x2goclient/sessions (s.below)
>
> [...]

Yea. Something like that. One should probably just have a 
reference-folder which get's copied to the user home.



>
> ################################################################################ 
>
>
> File: "/etc/init.d/ramdrive"
>
> nach: cat /proc/mounts>  /ramdrive/mtab
>         # setup lo interface
>         ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
>         # copy configs
>         cp -a /home/image/* /ramdrive/
>
>

See [1].  This shouldn't be needed any more. Basically I want to get rid 
of the thinclientsystem and x2gothinclient-package and replace them by 
an creation script. I believe that this will make it easier to adjust 
your thinclient to  your needs. It's probaly worth replacing the 
inline-cats with explicit files.


Morty


[1] 
http://i4git.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/x2gothinclientsystem.git/blob/b0260af3bba3dad5dcbe593a57757554b67a2667:/x2gothinclient_helper/x2gothinclient_create#l9

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