[Lancaster] Fwd: Re: installing the web server

[Ken Hough]

Andy wrote:

>I would still like to see if there is a simple way of having just one guest
>account which maps into one of several terminal-specific accounts after
>someone has logged in, but I'm not sure how to do this. I've tested the
>thing i posted before about using xrdb to get the terminal's hostname,
>which returns something like host-192.168.3.51.folly.co.uk, so in principle
>we could have a few guest accounts with names like guest-3-51 and
>guest-3-52, but I'm not sure how to switch to the new account in the
>Xsession script, or if this is a good idea anyhow (bearing in mind ken's
>comments about simplicity). It would be nice though if there could just be
>a single poster on the wall saying 'to use these computers, log in as
>guest, password guest, then see the help file on the desktop for more
>information"

In my experience arriving at 'simplicity' is rarely simple nor easy.

Keep up the good work.


Ken Hough