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

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Vaclav,
Once you have worked things out, I suggest capturing information for 
others as well.
Probably at least update or extend:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Virtual_Machine

And if you have a reliable process you are prepared to maintain long 
term, then maybe update or create a new Quickstart:
http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/virtualization_quickstart.html

These review pages might also be worth looking at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Review
If you think they need updating then lets talk about it on this list.

Warm regards, Cameron

On 6/10/2015 4:44 am, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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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>>>>>> OSGeo Charter Member
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>>>
>>>
>
>

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