On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>>> And how can the so called "guest login" be solved with ldm? > >> (Accounts with > >>>>> no, or empty password) > >>>>> Using gdm I only had to enable the trusted terminals > >> in /etc/securetty, > >>>>> AFAIR... > >>>> As we use ssh as the authentication transport, by default, ssh > >> doesn't > >>>> allow for empty passwords. It can be configured to do so. > >>> Hmm... I think there are two choices (at least): > >>> 1. enable empty password in ssh and limit the access of users with > >> empty > >>> password (guests) in /etc/security/access.conf... > >>> 2. run another sshd on the server with allowed empty password > config > >> and > >>> listening on an other port (and tell ldm that it should use that > >> port) > >>> The latter is a bit more complicated but can be more secure... > >> I think accounts without passwords are a hole you can drive a tank > >> through anyway, so I'd personally say either one's just as bad > >> as the next. :) > > > > Scott that's the ubuntu paradigism. *We know best*, so you can only > doit > > our way. > > First off, although I'm involved with Ubuntu, I'm not employed by > Ubuntu at all. Nor am I employed by LTSP. I'm a volunteer. A > volunteer who spends his own time writing things, and giving them to > you for free. Don't like what I do? Thats fine. I don't remember > forcing you to use my stuff, or even use it the way I write it > by default: source is out there, hack away. Send me patches. > Hang out in the channel, support your patches. > > In short, step up to the plate, if you don't like the way I'm doing > things. Kinda like I did, 7 years ago. > > You'll notice I didn't say he couldn't do it his way, just that I > don't agree with his way. What? After all the work I've done > for LTSP, I'm not allowed to state my opinion? All he has to > do is configure his ssh to not require passwords and it should work. > If you'll read correctly, I even told him this. So how am I > "thou shalt"ing? > > > Example one of my ltsp's is two tractors way out in an olive grove. > No > > tanks anywhere. No internet, no hostile users, nothing, but thou > > shallt ... > > In both the computer paradigm, and a real world scenario, history > has taught us tanks have a nasty tendency to show up where they're > not expected. Yesterday's olive grove becomes tomorrows battlefield.
Scott I humbly appologise that you saw any of my post as aggressive in any way. I had a mild opinion, that in no way reflects on the huge amount of work that you have and do put into LTSP, or any critique of you or of your opinion. What I was observing was that the ubuntu folk, gnome folk do is dumb down the interface in a way that makes it hard to recover. If I don't want to doit-that-way the recovery is hidden and cloaked in mystique. Cheers James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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