Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:55:09 +0200 From: Martin Brecher <listuser@mb-itconsulting.com> To: roy2098@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 5.2-1 NIS/YP KDE Message-ID: <4081535D.5020509@mb-itconsulting.com> In-Reply-To: <20040416151857.65008.qmail@web13910.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040416151857.65008.qmail@web13910.mail.yahoo.com>
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RA Cohen wrote:
[...]
> I have been successful in all aspects but one: client logins
> default to the most basic window mgr (tvwm I think). There are
> approx. 400 potentiaol users total over 65 workstations (a
> school environment). How can I make all of them default to KDE
> without manually going into each and every central home
> directory to set this? Do I need a Perl sctript to do this? How
> can I get a new user addition to default to KDE?
[...]
There are many ways to achieve this.
As you have all the home folders in a central location, it would be
easiest to replace every user's .xsession/.xinitrc files with one
calling startkde.
For new users to already have this custom file, place it in
/usr/share/skel/ with a name of dot.xinitrc resp. dot.xsession.
But there are other solutions:
One thing to consider is using a graphical login managager like
{k,g,x}dm, in case you don't already do so.
{k,g}dm allow the user to chooser their session. Adding new sessions to
the list is pretty straightforward - just take a look at gdm.conf resp.
kdm.conf files and the respective documentation.
If xdm is used you could modify its Xsession file: remove the part where
~/.xsession is started and simply have it launch kde.
Yet another way would be to simply replace twm with a symlink pointing
at the startkde script.
Finally, I suggest you check out cfengine <www.cfengine.org> (also in
the ports), which makes central administration of a network quite easy.
Cfengine also has macros to easily modify every user's
~/.{xsession,whatever} file.
Additionally, you might want to consider using CVS to keep track of your
configuration files (or/and the configuration files of cfengine).
HTH,
- Martin
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