[wellylug] SoupHub 2.0

[Franck]

Hi,

Recent Ubuntu provides the guest account with reset at logout.
>From what I remember, it creates a temporary home directory at login then delete the tree at logout.
This should take care of you guest account need.

For consistency, what we do is standard installation plus post installation script for customisation (remove software market and ads , ...)  This is simple enough for us and we don't have to manage the puppet infra. It really depends on the number of computers and the frequency in between reinstall.

For fileshare, the issue is around right management. You'll end up managing accounts so I wonder if NIS+NFS for home directory isn't better for that matter, I know it looks like old fashion stuff, but it's quite robust. If you don't manage rights, then a simple share with rw access for every one should be enough.
Again, if you don't worry about right management, space sharing between users (you always have a small portion of users who are heavy consumers) then it is quite simple.

Best regards.
Franck

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 08:52:51PM +1200, John Billings wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have been running the SoupHub, a small public computer lab at the
> Sisters of Compassion Centre on Tory St. for a few years now.   Most
> workstations are still running Debian Squeeze on some old Dell
> workstations.  We do have one Ubuntu 12.04 box that we setup when one of
> the original workstations failed.  We just got some new computers and we
> are going to be setting them up weekend after next (11th or the 12th of
> July).  We have 5 workstations (Core i3/8GB DDR3 machines).  We will be
> setting them up in a new space at the Compassion Centre the building has
> just undergone some renovations.
> 
> Based on some feedback from other volunteers some things we are
> considering to setup:
> 
> * Guest account "resets" after logout
> * Have a fileshare set for people who want to save files longer term
> * More consistent setup across workstations
> 
> I'm inclined to use Ubuntu 14.04 and setup a small server running Samba
> for a fileshare and Puppet for enforcing some consistency on the
> workstations.  I'd been keen to hear what other people would do for this
> setup.  If anyone is interested in helping out, likely we will be
> starting at 10am on the the 11th of July and see how we go.
> 
> Cheers,
> John Billings
> 
> 
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