blog/data/2012-01-10-skolelinux.txt

   1 Title: Changing the default Iceweasel start page in Debian Edu/Squeeze
   2 Tags: english, debian edu, web
   3 Date: 2012-01-10 15:30
   4
   5 <p>In the Squeeze version of
   6 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> soon
   7 to be released, users of the system will get their default browser
   8 start page set from LDAP, allowing the system administrator to point
   9 all users to the school web page by updating one setting in LDAP.  In
  10 addition to setting the default start page when a machine boots, users
  11 are shown the same page as a welcome page when they log in for the
  12 first time.</p>
  13
  14 <p>The LDAP object dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no have an attribute
  15 labeledURI with "http://www/ LDAP for Debian Edu/Skolelinux" as the
  16 default content.  By changing this value to another URL, all users get
  17 to see the page behind this new URL.</p>
  18
  19 <p>An easy way to update it is by using the ldapvi tool.  It can be
  20 called as "<tt>ldapvi -ZD '(cn=admin)'</tt>' to update LDAP with the
  21 new setting.</p>
  22
  23 <p>We have written the code to adjust the default start page and show
  24 the welcome page, and I wonder if there is an easier way to do this
  25 from within Iceweasel instead.</p>