Can you look at integrating the attached patch? Thanks.
Created attachment 38584 [details] LTSP hacks: enable xdmcp & bump up number of sessions
This looks quite wrong for the defaults - we don't want XDCMP without the admin knowing, that's a service that's off by default for security reasons; and our policy is that console access allows reboot/shutdown by default, in several places not just gdm. The max sessions change I guess is fine, though that's a lot of sessions - when I talked to the LTSP guy he made it sound like they ran 20-30 sessions off a server, not 250.
Um, remembe I'm just the messanger here. The overriding need is to simplify the setup of thin clients as much as possible. Yes, this can be done by changing the configuration, but some of these parameters are quite deep and mysterious. In fact, I've watched competent Red Hat administrators have some difficulty figgering what's up with thin clients (with no offense to anyone). And, fwiw, k12ltsp is designed to have 2 interfaces, one to a secure, trusted, internal network, the other upstream, so what's really needed is a way to have xdmcp enabled to self configure on if policy on some interface is "secure", if you catch my drift.
I realize you're just the messsenger, I'm just assuming you'll pass the response on, or that someone who cares will read the bug. OK, so it sounds like the issue is that we need some way to say "switch to terminal server mode" or "switch to thin client mode" on a distribution-wide basis, changing various settings along the way; or maybe we just need good docs on how to do this...
Nod, now you're talking :-) FWIW, thin clients have applications outside of K12LTSP as well, (duh) Thanks for looking into this.
Elliot says I can assign generic distribution enhancement requests to redhat-release, so here you go.
No, redhat-release is a package, not a dumping ground for generic distro RFEs/bugs. I'm changing the component to distribution. Tim
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported releases. This is probably better handled through variations of the Stateless Linux work.