Subject: Re: Ian's Xkernel
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Bob Beck <beck@obtuse.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/10/1997 15:12:28
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Ian Dall wrote:
> 
> > The only thing I thing I would like to run locally is an
> > xlock.
> 
> Actually, what would be really nice to add would be ssh. If we
> could have the X terminal set up so that it would log into some
> crippled account on the host system on boot, and the X session
> would be done entirely over ssh, with regular X stuff blocked, that
> would be really cool, and make the thing a lot more secure.
> 

	Only if it's not booting dickless. Otherwise the keys to the
kingdom are exposed via NFS :-)

	Still might be useful if you want to put a disk on it, but
at that point it can pretty much be a standalone machine.

	-Bob

> cjs
> 
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