Multi-user?

[Romeyn Prescott]

TYPO:  I obviously meant /etc/mol/molrc.input.user1



At 10:22 PM -0400 5/29/05, Romeyn Prescott scribbled:
>OK...this is a groovy idea.  I'm actually trying to do this to 
>assign different molrc.input files to different users.
>
>Can someone please tell me what is actually parsing molrc.osx??  I 
>have a file named /etc/mol/molrc.input/user1.  I want to insert the 
>environment variable for the logged in user executing startmol, but 
>I don't know what environment I'm in!  I've tried Perl convention, 
>bash...but nothing seems to work (e.g. molrc.input.$LOGNAME, 
>molrc.input.$ENV{USER}, etc.).
>
>Thanks,
>...ROMeyn
>
>
>
>At 3:28 PM -0700 5/20/05, Anthony Conrad scribbled:
>>Isn't their an easy way to grab the users unique identification number and
>>use that number to identify their partition?
>>
>>User1 = 500
>>Diskimage.500
>>
>>/etc/mol/session.map:
>>----------------------------------
>>...
>>	blkdev: diskimage.${UIN} -rw -boot
>>...
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org
>>[mailto:mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org] On Behalf Of Samuel Rydh
>>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:06 PM
>>To: Mac-on-Linux General Discussion List
>>Cc: Romeyn Prescott
>>Subject: Re: Multi-user?
>>
>>On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:23:22PM -0400, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>>>   What I want is for this box to be a "MOL Server" for my group.  From
>>>   their Linux boxes, they should be able to 'ssh -X' in and fire up
>>>   MOL.  This much works fine, but I'm having trouble figuringout how to
>>>   ensure that user1 boots to his own partition, user2 to his, etc.  I'm
>>>   sure the /etc/mol/session.map file holds the key to this, but I have
>>>   not been able to figure it out.  I envision that user1 would execute
>>>   "startmol -#" where "#" is some session number I have defined to use
>>>   user1's molrc file.
>>>
>>>   Does any of this make sense?  Can anyone help?
>>
>>The following will configure all session for Mac OS X:
>>
>>/etc/mol/session.map:
>>---------------------------------------
>>deny: all
>>allow: admin1, admin2
>>
>>ifempty ${session} {
>>          session: 0
>>}
>>ifeq ${session} 0 {
>>          allow: david
>>}
>>ifeq ${session} 1 {
>>          allow: samuel, other_user
>>}
>>boot_type: osx
>>include ${etc}/molrc.osx
>>--------------------------------------
>>
>>Each users would have to start mol using his or hers private
>>session number, i.e.
>>
>>          [david]  startmol -0
>>          [samuel] startmol -1
>>
>>In /etc/mol/molrc.osx (and possible in some of the other files
>>as well) you would typically make some session specific settings
>>
>>specific settings:
>>
>>ifeq ${session} 0 {
>>          blkdev:         diskimage.0 -rw -boot
>>}
>>ifeq ${session} 1 {
>>          blkdev:         diskimage.1 -rw -boot
>>}
>>
>>The avove could have been written simpler as
>>
>>          blkdev:         diskimage.${session} -rw -boot
>>
>>Unfortunately, there is currently no way around the fact that
>>each user has to know his or hers session number (but starting
>>another user's session won't work).
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>
>>/Samuel
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