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.