Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Security

2005-01-26 Thread david kwok
Dan Stromberg wrote: Hi David. Would you be willing to write up what you had to do to get NX to work? I'm extremely interested in this... Especially since I'm finding zebedee+VNC increasingly unreliable. I don't suppose you've compared NX with LBX? On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:05 +1100, david kwok

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Security

2005-01-20 Thread Mischa
Hi We are starting to integrate an LTSP environment in a company. I've already installed an LTSP-Server(4.1) for testing with debian without any Problems. Thanks for the good documentation! Now to my question: Is it possible to encrypt the traffic of X11 (vpn/ssh tunnel/etc.)? I've tried to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Security

2005-01-20 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2005 13:22 schrieb Mischa: Hi We are starting to integrate an LTSP environment in a company. I've already installed an LTSP-Server(4.1) for testing with debian without any Problems. Thanks for the good documentation!

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and Security

2005-01-20 Thread Dan Stromberg
I've added just enough stuff to LTSP 4.1 to get it doing secure VNC (via zebedee), rather than native X11. However, for endusers it will require some kind of easier way of starting up an Xvnc with zebedee remotely. Also, I understand someone on the list has been working on NX support for LTSP,

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and security

2002-09-21 Thread David Leuser II
Does anyone out there have some advice they could share with me on security? My first real exposure to linux was this summer when we decided to go all out and run all our school's dorm computers as LTSP stations... Specifically my concern is this: On all our the PCs (yes, I'm paranoid, and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and security

2002-09-21 Thread Dirk Schouten
At 11:13 21-9-02 -0400, you wrote: big snip Appreciate any pointers, even on security in general. T.I.A. David M. Leuser, II Assistant Network Administrator New Hampton School (603) 744-3182 x121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi David, What I found very useful

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and security

2002-09-21 Thread David Leuser II
Thank you for your detailed reply, I especially like #4! No worries, I had no plans to chmod /etc... The kids are 14 to 19years-- and I try not to underestimate them-- I'm practically still a kid myself, and I know bmany/b personally at other schools that have gained priveleges that they

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and security

2002-09-21 Thread Peter Billson
David, You have a tough job. Guarding against outside attacks is tough. Guarding against untrusted users is tougher. Guarding against malicious users is really tough! You will find most of the available documentation relates to guarding against outside attacks - i.e. firewalls, securing

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and security

2002-09-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Jim Wildman wrote: 1) monitor 2) backups 3) prestaged 4) hire (viz. co-optinf jujitsu) 5) different root 6) Change password 7) Firewall 8) Complacency is your enemy. hmmm ... I would add (it might be called part of 8, but lets make it express): 9) Study all