testing new ldm with out encryption

Jim McQuillan jam at McQuil.com
Fri Jun 22 20:13:43 BST 2007



Alfred Nutile wrote:
> I get ip address of the stations. ie 192.168.8:6.0 <--do not know what 
> the 6.0 is.

That's NOT ssh.

I'm guessing the '6' is for SCREEN_07, where SCREEN_01 = '0.0'.  I 
haven't looked at Gadi's patch to see how he did it tho.

Jim.


> Though the dhcp for one of them and the host file shows it to be ws008
> and arp as well, but even on that machine I get the ip.
> So is that ssh or is that not?
> Thanks
> 
> Alfred Nutile
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> Jim McQuillan wrote:
>>
>>
>> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>>>> so far it works though do I really know if it is not encrypted?
>>>> and two after setting up hostname in dhcp I still am not able to 
>>>> get  the auto login.
>>>> Though I am not quite sure what the lts.conf should look like.
>>>
>>> I have not tested the autologin myself, and I don't know how to tell 
>>> for certain that X
>>> is bypassing ssh.  However after I install the new ldm and enable 
>>> directx video files no
>>
>> It's real easy to tell if X is being tunneled through SSH.
>>
>> After logging in, pop up an xterm (or gnome-terminal or kconsole) and do:
>>
>>     echo $DISPLAY
>>
>>
>> If the DISPLAY comes back as something like:
>>
>>      localhost:10.0
>>
>> That means that your X session is being proxied by something locally 
>> (SSH in this case).
>>
>> If you aren't tunnelling through SSH, you'll see something more like:
>>
>>     ws009:0.0
>>
>> Which means it'll send the X packets directly to the thin client
>>
>> Jim McQuillan
>> jam at Ltsp.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> longer have a jerkyness (I don't think that is a real word) and play 
>>> very smooth.  So I
>>> assume this to be proof that the X is not being sent over ssh.
>>>
>>> Gideon Romm (gideon at symbio-technologies.com) is the gentleman that 
>>> added the extra lines
>>> in the ldm to handle the added features.  I am sure that he would 
>>> know the proper setup
>>> for lts.conf and how to make the autologin work.  I think he would be 
>>> more than happy to
>>> help out.  If you get this setup and tested please post back to the 
>>> list with some
>>> better instructions.
>>>
>>> I am certain that if/when this makes it into the gutsy release there 
>>> will be much better
>>> documentation to support it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jim 
>>



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