[Ltsp-beginners] Follow-up: "LTSP client logs me in as root, though I am not root"

[Mark E. <m.d...@sh...>]

I've identified what is going on here.
In the script /opt/ltsp/amd64/usr/share/ldm/rc.d/X01-localapps, there is 
this line which gets the passwd entry for the current user from the 
server, to feed into the local useradd command:

IFS=':' read LDM_USERNAME dummy pw_uid pw_gid pw_gecos LDM_HOME pw_shell 
<<EOF
$(ssh_run '/usr/bin/getent passwd $(/usr/bin/id -u)')
EOF


The user on our system which was failing, has a .bashrc line which reads 
from a template file in /usr/local, which I did not mount on our LTSP 
server. It gives a message about "cannot access any system-wide profile 
script" which I think the above "read" command splits into fields, and 
the useradd fails.

Now that I've made the template file available, the user is added 
successfully on login to the LTSP client.

I'll have a go at modifying X01-localapps tomorrow but I just wanted to 
say that I don't require support with this issue anymore.

Thanks,
Mark


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Mark Ellerby                          Department of Computer Science
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