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1b1ed1a
(Get the code!)
Some thoughts:
Getting the hardware address will only work if the client is on the same subnet as the terminal server. I think this is usually the case, but can we actually rely on this?
Is the hardware address really useful to somebody who does not know how to obtain it without tcm?
Getting the hostname could end up being very slow, because we might have to perform a reverse DNS lookup, and in the worst case, wait until it times out. I don't think we can use the utmp file, because we have no way to determine which entry in it is an LTSP session. A user might spawn a multitude of login sessions, all of which will show up in utmp.
The same problem arises for for "last login" and "length of current session". For these two, letting the user-side helper record the information and then querying it would probably work.
I am changing the status of this bug to "incomplete", since it needs further discussion before it can be fixed.