Jim, thats amazing- cant wait! Now if we could just replicate/reverse engineer NX! :)
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 07:29 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Faraz, > > password aging is currently being added to LDM. In fact, LDM has been > completely rewritten in C, so it's much faster than the python version. > Not because python is necessarily slow, but because it's so slow to > load the python interpreter and libraries across the NFS root filesystem. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Faraz Khan wrote: > > Just a comment regarding LDM - for slightly larger 'corporate' setups we > > would need forceful password changes, password aging, etc. SSH correctly > > handles these (through PAM or Kerberos) but LDM does not. I know this > > may be low priority- but is there a wish list i can add this to? this > > really prevents me from implementing LDM at slightly 'corporate' > > locations. I thought of doing this myself but really see no way this can > > be easily done (unless the thin client does a PAM authenticate first and > > then ssh) > > > > On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 10:52 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote: > >> Gideon Romm wrote: > >>> Anthony- > >>> > >>> ssh is still used as a communication tunnel between client and server. > >>> For example, it is used to launch the session, set up sound, trigger > >>> mounting of local devices, that sort of thing. The only difference is > >>> that you are not proxying the ssh traffic through ssh, so you eliminate > >> I think he meant "not proxying the X traffic through ssh" > >> > >> Jim. > >> > >>> the overhead of encrypting the video data (the majority of the ssh > >>> overhead in the secure scenario) and, more importantly for performance, > >>> you are not proxying the X traffic, but rather directly talking between > >>> the applications and the xserver. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> -Gadi > >>> > >>> On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 22:12 -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > >>>> I apologize. I tried it again, this time with a fresh setup, and > >>>> everything worked perfectly. I must have setup things incorrectly on > >>>> the first attempt because your modified LDM script works beautifully. > >>>> > >>>> I am curious, is it just X that's no longer being encrypted over ssh > >>>> with the new LDM_DIRECTX option or is the entire terminal session no > >>>> longer using ssh, because I noticed that sshd is still a running > >>>> process. > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:19 -0400, Gideon Romm wrote: > >>>>> Anthony, > >>>>> > >>>>> In LTSP5, gdm is not used at all. You need not enable XDMCP in gdm or > >>>>> even have gdm installed on the server. If enabling it changed things, > >>>>> that must mean you have SCREEN_07=startx in your lts.conf. Don't do > >>>>> that. Take it out. Use ldm. Then, you localdev and everything else > >>>>> should work. > >>>>> > >>>>> -Gadi > >>>>> > >>>>> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 21:53 -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > >>>>>> I gave this version of LDM a whirl and was pleasantly surprised. It > >>>>>> does boot quicker and, after configuring GDM for remote logins, I was > >>>>>> quickly presented with a login screen. Sound still works, but I notice > >>>>>> that the USE_XFS and LOCALDEV options in the lts.conf file do not have > >>>>>> an effect. Local devices aren't critical, but I need access to the XFS > >>>>>> server since we use IBM's iSeries Access that requires un/scalable > >>>>>> fonts. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Am I doing something wrong? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:34 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote: > >>>>>>> Hello all, I met with Gideon Romm at our North Central Linux > >>>>>>> Symposium. He has been > >>>>>>> working on modifications to the code for ldm to allow the bypass of X > >>>>>>> being encrypted > >>>>>>> over ssh. He has also added functionality to be able to use > >>>>>>> autologin. You can > >>>>>>> download the modified ldm from here: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~gideon/ltsp/gadi-ldm-mods-ltsp/download/gadi%40ltsp.org-20070521205254-ek710bofdpdtlwlz/x_Matt_Zimmerman_%3Cmatt.zimmerman%40canonical.com%3E_Tue_Jun__7_19%3A59%3A49_2005_32192.0/ldm > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Replace your current "/opt/ltsp/i386/usr/sbin/ldm" with the new file > >>>>>>> (you may want to > >>>>>>> backup your current ldm just to be safe). The in > >>>>>>> "/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf" add the > >>>>>>> following line: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> LDM_DIRECTX=True > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> You will now be able to run without X being encrypted, which in > >>>>>>> theory should allow LTSP > >>>>>>> 5 to run at the same speed as LTSP 4.2. Bootup times and logout > >>>>>>> times will still be > >>>>>>> slower, but once booted things should zoom along. So far my tests > >>>>>>> show that this works > >>>>>>> awesome! I am still waiting for my new clients to really give this a > >>>>>>> go. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> If you would like to use autologin features you simply need to add > >>>>>>> the following line to > >>>>>>> lts.conf: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> LDM_USERNAME=hostname > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Apparently this lets you use the same user=workstation method that > >>>>>>> worked in LTSP 4.2. > >>>>>>> You will still need to setup ssh keys OR create the same password for > >>>>>>> each user and > >>>>>>> specify LDM_PASSWORD="mypassword" (in lts.conf). You also need to > >>>>>>> specify workstation > >>>>>>> names in dhcpd.conf so that workstations do not all have the same > >>>>>>> hostname (I am not > >>>>>>> sure if this is able to be done with the /etc/hosts file as well). > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Anyhow this hacked ldm should allow LTSP 5 to finally be usable in > >>>>>>> larger installations > >>>>>>> instead of hanging on to LTSP 4.2. Also I guess that Scott Balneaves > >>>>>>> has rewritten some > >>>>>>> of the python startup files in C, which should clear up some boot > >>>>>>> time problems in the > >>>>>>> next Gutsy release (Scott, sorry if I butchered up what exactly you > >>>>>>> have been working on). > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Jim Kronebusch > >>>>>>> Cotter Tech Department > >>>>>>> 453-5188 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > >>>>>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > >>>>>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > >>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > >>>>>> _____________________________________________________________________ > >>>>>> Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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