tsclient redirect home dir

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Martijn Brouwer wrote:
> Dear Debian maintainers,
> Some time ago I just discovered the possibility to map the local file
> system to the terminal server. I really like this feature except that I
> do not think it correct that the whole file system is exposed to the
> remote server (running windows!).
> Since rdesktop can map any directory it takes only a few small changes
> to the tsclient code to have the users home directory mapped instead of
> the root directory. I made these changes and created an debian patch for
> it.
> What the patch does:
> - if the diskmapping check box is enable it retrieves the users home dir
> from the HOME environment variable
> - since this variable can be changed by the user, I check whether the
> user owns the directory. 
> - if he does, the directory is mapped to the terminal server
> - I changed the strings in the gui to reflect these changes
> In this way the user can in principle map any directory he wants
> provided he owns it. To me this seems a sane policy.
> The patch can be copied to the debian/patches directory.
> Can you please review the patch, apply it to the unstable repository and
> forward it upstream?
> The tsclient seems to be overhauled extensively at this moment, but
> judging by the date of the tar ball, progress is slow.

Can you open a bug? Otherwise this will get lost.

Cheers,
Emilio

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