I'm a rookie to Linux but have made some headway, but now I'm stuck. What I'm doing is formatting two boxes with Fedora 10 and will be using them to login to a virtual machine for training. What I need to do is create a script to log these machines into rdesktop automatically when the machine boots. I have learned the script that I need to be "rdesktop -f -u [username] 192.168.xxx.xxx" but I'm not sure how to embed this into a login script.
Also, I'm looking to optimize these machines at bootup, they are running a little slow, any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
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Since you're using fedora 10, your window manager is probably gnome. Since you aren't actually going to be using the window manager for much, just launching a remote desktop, you should switch to something a lot more lightweight and faster like fluxbox. Fluxbox is also included in fedora, as well as xfce, another lightweight window manager.
You can put the rdesktop command in a .xinitrc file in the user's home directory.
Thanks all,
I'm trying to move the script I wrote into the /usr/local/bin folder but am receiving "you do not have permissions to save the file" message. I've researched it and found a lot of different options, but none seem to work for me.
My issue now is that my permissions aren't as root... I've gone to turn selinux off by using
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
to turn off temporarily while I try to straighten this out. It's not helping either. Any suggestions?
My real question now is "how do I set my user account to log in as root?"
Do you have root access to the machine?
If so, I would suggest that you move the file to /usr/local/bin as root, and then change permissions to enable you to execute it as a normal user
eg. chmod 551 /usr/local/bin/<filename>
If you don't have root access at all, then just keep the script in your home directory and run it from there
I'm not sure what your "real question" is. Do you want to "log in" as root, or run the script as root?
For the latter, you can chmod +s /usr/local/bin<filename> for SUID, but my guess is this is not what you need.
Which bit are you having problems with, is it executing the script, adding it to Startup Applications, or moving it?
> I'm trying to move the script I wrote into the /usr/local/bin folder but am receiving "you do not have permissions to save the file" message
Of course. It's conceptually wrong. If you need to execute some file widely, put the folder that contains it in your PATH. But don't move it to bin folder. And don't turn off SELinux to pursue the wrong way.
Use the method I told you, that's effective for your normal user account and won't expose your compute to security threats
Thanks for your help!
In order to make this a thinclient I had to take the following steps:
1) Download rdesktop
2) Go to System>Preferences>Persona
3) Go to /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add the following to the bottom of the page:
[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=user
Thanks again!
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by: ai_ja_naiPosted on 2009-05-05 at 08:45:38ID: 24305972
It depends on which desktop environment you have. For example, in GNOME go to System-->Preferences-->Sessi