[Thinlinc-technical] Forcing sessions for some users to certain agent hosts

[Duthoit, Philippe]

Hi !

I don't have users defined on the Master, still I am able to login into the first Agent, is this as designed ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Mannehed [mailto:samuel at cendio.se] 
Sent: 04 May 2015 14:24
To: thinlinc-technical at lists.cendio.se
Subject: Re: [Thinlinc-technical] Forcing sessions for some users to certain agent hosts

Hi Philippe,

> I have 2 Agents, A and B, 1 Manager M
> Based on username I would have A -users logged into Agent A , and off 
> course B-users logged into Agent B
> 
> I can read in the manual we can create groups and have these groups 
> forced to certain servers

Correct.
 
> How can I create these groups ?

You can use the groupadd command.

> The groups are unix groups, but do I need to create these users on the 
> Manager ? That would be odd ?

With "Manager" I assume you mean the ThinLinc master? All the users have to be found by the master AND on all agents they should be able to get sessions on. We recommend using a shared user database for your ThinLinc cluster. You should consider looking into LDAP for example.

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