As discussed half an hour ago with ogra on #ltsp, it might be nice for quite some LTSP deployment environments to be able to provide user list in display manager. Due to ldm seemingly the only supported transport for localdev currently and missing that feature, it forces to fall back to ltsp4 method of doing that (and kdm/gdm).
<gvy> now we're pretty much there but localdev :)
<ogra> gvy, actually we only use the ltspfsd and ltspfs binaries from the old implemetation
<gvy> ogra, ah; those worked
<ogra> all the surrounding bits (tthe actual stuff that makes it work) were rewritten for ltsp5
<ogra> all you need is a chroot
<ogra> gvy, the ltsp5 implementation doesnt use lbus anymore but an ssh tunnel provided by ldm ... all mounting happens natively through udev rules on the client ...
<ogra> ... on the server side we have one script and a suid root binary that moves the mount to /media/$USER/<drivename>
<gvy> ogra, tnx
<gvy> anyone with e.g. kdm goes north-west? :)
<ogra> anyone not using ldm, yes
<ogra> (which you shouldnt do anyway XDMCP is da evil)
<gvy> :]
<ogra> gvy, sbalneav is working on an X tunneled communication layer for gutsy (7.10) .... then XDMCP should work as well again ...
<ogra> and i'm working on proper hal integration for october
<gvy> ogra, re ldm: a colleague tells that ldm misses userlist for us
<ogra> gvy, not implemented yet
<ogra> gvy, i just started a C/Gtk rewrite that should have some extra features in october
<gvy> ogra, well... from mgmt pov it's not exactly sane to roll out a new mechanism for mounting as default (especially breaking the robust existing one) to narrow down dm support to half-written one
<ogra> half written one ?
<gvy> just as a side note from someone who've seen/done that way too often :]
<gvy> ldm
<ogra> sorry, but i dont agree ldm is written for a purpose and fulfills this since three releases
<gvy> userlist seems quite critical at TS deployments I've seen (and in LDAP-based standalone WS deployments as well)
<gvy> ogra, well I'm exactly about different purposes
<ogra> 1.5 years is quite some time to file a whishlist bug about missing fetures
<gvy> nevermind, it's rather a surprise for me, not moaning about how bad all is :-)
<gvy> I'll try to
So here it is, in this proprietary bug silo. :)
I'm not going to consider this for gutsy. We can discuss it's merits for gutsy+1
It would certainly have to be an option that was not on by default.