On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:22:02PM -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote: > Sherwood Botsford wrote: > > Why are you reluctant to run ssh? > > The biggest problem with running sshd on the thin client is mainly > a performance issue: if you've got 1ghz clients with goodly amount > of ram, yeah, it's a great solution.
You bring a smile to my day :-) My main linux machine at home is a 400MHz PII (originally with 64M ram) - OpenSSH places no noticeable load on it. I have no doubt that enabling all bells and whistles, as you say your users desire, would slow it to a crawl, but OpenSSH would not be the problem. If you want to try a lightweight SSH server, try dropbear - it's available in Debian and presumably many other distros: http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html "small memory footprint suitable for memory-constrained environments - Dropbear can compile to a 110kB statically linked binary with uClibc on x86 (only minimal options selected)" Of course, I'm not saying that ssh is the right solution to your problem, but it is a pretty lightweight, secure, and well understood way of accessing your clients, and allows you to do damn near anything to the client. Other possible approaches: Are you running iptables on your clients? If so, I suspect you could setup a port-knock type of rule that triggered an action. I guess the same thing could be done if you are running inetd. (Note: both of these suggestions are well outside my current expertise - they might require incredibly messy kludginess - I'm mainly just suggesting that you might be able to get leverage from something that is already running) Karl. -- http://mowson.org/karl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
