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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Vaclav,

yes, /etc/skal is used but settings are specific to "user"

Best,
Angelos

On 10/05/2015 08:22 PM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Already happening:
>>
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/inchroot.sh#L216
>
> I'm not really familiar with the process, so just to be clear on what is
> happening. /etc/skel is used (can be used) to create home for a user, but
> so far it contains all the user names hardcoded as 'user'?
>
>
>>
>> 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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>>


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