From foobar@u.washington.edu Thu Apr 22 10:51:33 1999 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA10502 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:51:32 -0700 Received: from dante06.u.washington.edu (foobar@dante06.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.8]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA15476 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:51:32 -0700 Received: from localhost (foobar@localhost) by dante06.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA68618 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:51:31 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:51:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael S. Hornung" To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: Linux as an X terminal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Keep in mind that ssh versions 1 and 2 ARE NOT compatible, so you will get best results by downloading ssh 1.XX. ----------------------------------------------- Michael Hornung foobar@u.washington.edu On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, C. Hunter wrote: | |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] |> > |> > |> |> | | .