<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>you might also find</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/oetiker/tl-extras">https://github.com/oetiker/tl-extras</a></div><div><br></div><div>of interest</div><div><br>Tobias Oetiker<div><a href="mailto:tobi@oetiker.ch">tobi@oetiker.ch</a></div><div>062 775 9902</div></div><div><br>On 29.11.2014, at 18:10, Carsten Rose <<a href="mailto:carsten.rose@math.uzh.ch">carsten.rose@math.uzh.ch</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Dear Torsten</span><br><span></span><br><span>According to</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/configuration_customizing_user_session.html">https://www.cendio.com/resources/docs/tag/configuration_customizing_user_session.html</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>there is a /opt/thinlinc/etc/sessionreconnect.d/</span><br><span></span><br><span>We didn't step deeper into this. Our idea was:</span><br><span></span><br><span>In sessionreconnect.d (vsmserver host) tell the screenlock (vsmagent host) to unlock.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Some approaches:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Option a)</span><br><span>VSM Server knows (probably) the User password (it has been cached somewhere). As the user do an ssh from vsmserver to the vsmagent host and send an shell screensaver unlock command.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Option b)</span><br><span>Same a a), but send the password to the user vnc session as keystrokes (don't know if and how this might work).</span><br><span></span><br><span>Option c)</span><br><span>On all vsm agent hosts, install a daemon who listen to comamands from vsm server host and unlock the corresponding screenlock.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Option d)</span><br><span>Like (a) but instead of unlock, kill the user screenserver and start a new one (might be easier than doing an unlock.</span><br><span></span><br><span>HTH - and let us know about any progress ;-)</span><br><span></span><br><span>CU</span><br><span>Carsten</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On our former Sun Ray installation, we used 'xscreensaver' to check if a session is in use or blocked. check</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 11/27/2014 03:16 PM, Torsten Kasch wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi Carsten,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 11/24/2014 08:59 PM, Carsten Rose wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear Torsten</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>we would also appreciate a solution to avoid this double password input.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Good to hear. I already started wondering if I was really the first one to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>notice this -- which I would have found hard to believe since experience shows</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that (at least in the field of system administration) there always seems to be</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>someone who has come across the same issues earlier... ;-)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>thinlinc has some possibilities, similar to utaction - but I'm suspect it</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>requires some work to script it.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hmm, what exactly are the possibilities you were referring to? I wouldn't mind</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>having to script or tweak the system a little for a solution, but I didn't find</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>anything close to utaction(1) or similar which would allow me to hook some</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>custom routines into.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>cheers,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Torsten</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thinlinc-technical mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:Thinlinc-technical@lists.cendio.se">Thinlinc-technical@lists.cendio.se</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Manage your subscription:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.cendio.se/mailman/listinfo/thinlinc-technical">http://lists.cendio.se/mailman/listinfo/thinlinc-technical</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Carsten Rose</span><br><span>IT Koordinator / Institut für Mathematik</span><br><span></span><br><span>*****</span><br><span>Universität Zürich</span><br><span>Carsten Rose</span><br><span>Institut für Mathematik, Y27-J40</span><br><span>Winterthurerstrasse 190</span><br><span>CH-8057 Zürich</span><br><span></span><br><span>+41 44 635 58 47 Telefon</span><br><span>+41 44 635 57 05 Telefax</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.math.uzh.ch">www.math.uzh.ch</a></span><br><span><a href="mailto:carsten.rose@math.uzh.ch">carsten.rose@math.uzh.ch</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those</span><br><span>that understand binary .. and those that don't"</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thinlinc-technical mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Thinlinc-technical@lists.cendio.se">Thinlinc-technical@lists.cendio.se</a></span><br><span>Manage your subscription:</span><br><span><a href="http://lists.cendio.se/mailman/listinfo/thinlinc-technical">http://lists.cendio.se/mailman/listinfo/thinlinc-technical</a></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>