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

[Johan Van de Wauw]

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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