From coyote@u.washington.edu Thu Apr 22 08:19:53 1999 Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id IAA47432 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:19:52 -0700 Received: from dante35.u.washington.edu (coyote@dante35.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.195]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id IAA16854 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:19:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (coyote@localhost) by dante35.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id IAA50676 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:19:51 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:19:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "C. Hunter" To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: Linux as an X terminal In-Reply-To: <002301be8ca9$64332e30$4126d080@fred.sanlorenzo> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII SSH is developed outside of the US, because of export cryptography laws I believe. http://www.ssh.fi/sshprotocols2/download.html has a list of worldwide mirrors for the program. -Chris On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Jeffrey J. Kyllo wrote: > I seem to have run into a problem. Should I be running ssh locally or on > the UA machine? If locally, then there's the problem. I didn't install it > when I installed Linux and a friend of mine is borrowing my CD's. So, where > can I download it? I tried looking in the UNC archives but they don't seem > to be organized very well. Any ideas? As far as versions go, I'm running > RedHat 5.2 with the 2.0.36 kernel. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Dittrich > To: UW Linux Group > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 13:58 > Subject: Re: Linux as an X terminal > > > >On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, R. David Whitlock wrote: > > > >> Variation on this I hadn't ever tried: can we still XDM login to the UAC > >> machines (locally of course) ? I can't think of a great reason to do so, > >> but.... > > > >Part of the problem may be that you are trying to use "setup xlab", > >which is *not* a general XDM replacement. It is very specific to the > >C&C X Terminal Labs, using NCD X terminals (booted with our server code, > >using XDM like capabilities of a central C&C system). > > > >As for XDM on UA systems, C&C has never supported this. One major > >reason is you are sharing that system with thosands of other users, and > >running multiple X clients under XDM is not very memory friendly. > > > >I suggest using "ssh" as Mike Hornung explained, for greatest ease, > >greatest security, least impact on shared systems. > > > >-- > >Dave Dittrich Client Services > >dittrich@cac.washington.edu Computing & Communications > > University of Washington > > > > > >Dave Dittrich / dittrich@cac.washington.edu [PGP Key] > > > > > > .