Re: [PLUG] helping a school district

["John BORIS" <jboris@adphila.org>]

Eric,
Wouldn't this be done in the profile. When the student logs into the
Ubuntu computer it executes the profile (not really sure in Gnome or KDE
what goes on) so the script gets executed and does its thing. 

You could possibly have them login at the non graphical screen and then
fire off the x session after they are authenticated, mounted the drive
and then when they log out of the x session if it is dropped back to the
shell the script would have a logout as the end of the script.

I will have to look at the gnome/kde login process.

John J. Boris, Sr.

"Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel
Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!"


>>> "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> 7/12/2012 2:02 PM >>>
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My Brother-in-law called me today - he's a vice-principal at Delran
High School in NJ.

He said they need a Linux "script" to connect to a remote shared
(Microsoft) drive.

My notes are:

   Student logs in to Ubuntu 12.04 computer.
   Student is automatically (or manual via icon click) prompted to
enter:
      username
      password
      location
        course (optional)
   From this information the script:
       builds the path
       authenticates the user
       mounts the appropriate drive.

Presumably something will be required to disconnect the user's drive
when they
log out of the UI.

I could do this with the shell but who (besides me and you) uses the
shell?

Is this easy enough to do with something like Tcl/Tk or Perl/Tk (or
some Python
magic that I'm totally unaware of)?

Examples?  Prior art?  Suggestions?

Thanks,
Eric
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