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

[Vaclav Petras]

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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