Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Guest login: "no response from server, restarting"

[John H. <lt...@pr...>]

On 2/11/2014 3:03 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> I understood that in lts.conf, if I simply enable LDM_GUESTLOGIN=True in
> the default section, then in LDM all clients should present a Login as
> Guest button below the User Name field, and that by default, the client
> host name (e.g. ltsp101) would be accepted as both the user name and
> password.
>
> But with that setup, it doesn't matter if I enter the client host name,
> leave the field blank, or enter a user name from the server -- in every
> case LDM reports "no response from server, restarting," and it does
> indeed restart.
>
> This is on a Lubuntu 13.04 installation that I had set up for testing
> some time back (using LTSP-PNP, if that matters).
>
> Am I missing something?

I see now that the LTSP Guest Login is not a way of launching a *buntu 
limited-privilege "guest session" or of otherwise provisioning a 
temporary guest account on the fly.

Rather it authenticates against the list of existing user accounts. So 
for my example above, a user named "ltsp101" with password "ltsp101" 
would need to have been created, and the account is not 
limited-privilege unless it has been set up that way.

The LTSP Guest Login feature is apparently provided simply as a way of 
allowing guest access on a terminal without having to divulge a set of 
login credentials.