Re: [PLUG] helping a school district

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

Eric,
I googled this and found this:

http://superuser.com/questions/299394/how-to-automatically-execute-a-shell-script-when-logging-into-ubuntu


Read down and it explains that you can add it to the startup
applications. But you would want this globally so he would have to add
it to the default setting. Somewhere there is an init file that the GUI
reads so he would have to hack that. 

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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