[Live-demo] Running OSGeo-Live in Apache VCL

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Already happening:

https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/inchroot.sh#L216

best,
Angelos

On 10/05/2015 06:11 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> We can probably fix many errors by having everything added under the
> user dir also under /etc/skel. If a new user is created, it copies
> that data.
>
> For your setup: take care that user has sudo rights. I am not sure
> this is what you want.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Johan
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Vaclav,
>>>
>>> We have not tested this use case in the recent releases, so there might be
>>> more than QGIS and GRASS.
>>> It would be very useful to have a volunteer run all the quickstarts using
>>> a custom user
>>
>> Well, I can ran it for few more desktop projects I'm interested in, but not
>> for all.
>>
>>> to confirm what is working.
>>
>> Now we know that it doesn't work for QGIS and GRASS GIS. There is hight
>> chance it will fail for anything PostgreSQL-related. My question is what to
>> do about it? Is the solution just to use user name 'user'?
>>
>> Vaclav
>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Angelos
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/30/2015 02:34 AM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> my university made OSGeo-Live available for students through Apache VCL
>>> (Virtual Computing Lab). It is customary that on Linux machines you get
>>> your user name, however the examples and defaults in OSGeo-Live are
>>> expecting user name to be 'user'.
>>>
>>> I have tried GRASS GIS where you have to change the grassdata directory.
>>> In
>>> QGIS, you have to change the paths in the project when opening the project
>>> (the GUI allows you to edit them manually). I'm not sure what else is
>>> influenced. The browser's default page was not localhost.
>>>
>>> Do you thing is it worth trying asking to change user name to 'user'? Or,
>>> from your experience, do you think that few broken project files wouldn't
>>> be such a problem when people follow tutorials? Or is is feasible to
>>> change
>>> the user name everywhere? Few sed commands would take care of QGIS project
>>> file and GRASS GIS defaults but I have no idea what else is there.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vaclav
>>>
>>>
>>>
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