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Re: [PLUG] Xandros hacking on eeePC
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Art Alexion wrote:
> We are looking to buy a bunch of these as loaner laptops for employees who
> occasionally travel. We used to use full featured Dell Latitude 630s, but
> the idea is saving cost, durability of the SDD, and travel weight, among
> other things. The potential end users were not told it wasn't windows, only
> that it was the laptop interface. They seemed to love it.
>
> I like the simplicity of the Xandros UI for end users, but it seems to be a
> pain to administer at all.
Xandros is a Debian based distribution thus I would look at
/etc/X11/default-display-manager. If the contents in not something like
/usr/bin/xdm then you can edit it or edit the file /etc/init.d/xdm and
change the block as per the following instructions
# To start xdm even if it is not the default display manager, change
# HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER to "false."
# Also overridable from command line like:
# HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=false /etc/init.d/xdm start
[ -z "$HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER" ] && HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true
DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager
Also I would look at /etc/rc2.d/ and look at the sequence of events.
Also if you are using the laptops for company business and storing
company information in the home directory that you want protected I
would repartition the hard drive and create encrypted partitions for
both /home and swap.
Thus if a laptop is stolen, then you have one less worry. Remember when
the VA laptop was stolen with all of the SSN's on it.
>
> Google as I may, I have found no way to add user choices to the display
> manager (can't tell whether its kdm or a Xandros app). The default setup is
> to create a single home directory called user and to display an alias for
> that user on the dm which comes from /home/user/.AsusLauncher/requireLogin
>
> I'd like to have it present either a gdm style "type a user" or kdm
> style "pick list". I have sucessfully added users, but can't figure out how
> to allow them to log in.
I am not a Xandros user but these are just some ideas.
>
> Anyone succeed with this?
>
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