vms for labs on osgeo8 - remote.osgeo.org

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This is still a work in progress but looks promising.

I took the latest livecd ​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/nightly/osgeolive-nightly-build40-amd64-1949c1b-master.iso

and was able to create a VM on osgeo8 and then made a copy of that vm. So there is an live-desktop and live-desktop-2

Which are accessible thru meshcentral (​https://meshcentral.com/info/)

​https://remote.osgeo.org

Anyone interested in testing them out, let me know and I'll create account on remote.osgeo.org for you to test them out.

The performance thru the browser seems pretty decent, the clipboard copy paste (between remote and local user desktop) takes a bit of getting used to.

Anyway my plan is to maybe setup a bunch of these. They don't need to be on osgeo8 (can be on other servers or even cloud ones we have the meshcentral client installed on) and so we can have a backup for those who have issues with the livecd disk.

Copying the vms is pretty instant. Only thing I have to do after setting them up is change their hostnames so they don't appear all the same in remote.osgeo.org.

I think I can also allocate machines to particular users so that way for a lab, we can define guest user accounts for people to use and destroy them after.

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I was looking to see if we could have remote.osgeo.org (meshcentral) use ldap, and it seems possible according to this video

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQMbNQk85g8

I'm going to try to implement this then we don't need to be creating standalone accounts to allow users to use lab desktops.

[robe]

Yeh I got ldap working so now ​https://remote.osgeo.org requires you log in with ldap.

I still don't have the ldap group piece working. Evidentally memberOf is not something we are using for groups and not sure I can specify our groups.

Ideally I'd like to set access to remote desktops based on the LDAP groups rather than waiting for people to log in to remote.osgeo.org before I can assign remote desktops.

Vicky just tried and was able to log in. I was too and it seemed to sync with my existing account after I set the key right, so I am still an admin.

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For here is the video on configuring the LDAP groups.

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POULGboaCw

I'm not sure if the issue is because he is using activedirectory or just we don't have memberOf configured. I read somewhere here that requires and extra overlay. Trying to figure out how we can use the groups we have already.

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Moving my prior still open items to the next proposed Milestone