At 22:00 Uhr -0500 26.8.2006, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
>Hauke Fath wrote:
>> Please take a look at http://la.causeuse.org/hauke/macbsd/xdm/ and see if
>> that helps. It's not finished yet, information about remote X clients is
>> still missing.
>
>Hauke, I was wondering if this is complete enough to build a simple
>setup from at this time?  It doesn't look finished, but I don't know
>enough about the subject to know if it's "enough" or not.

That depends on what you intend to do. The tarball has my complete xdm
setup files which give you a local XDM login, and the existing explanations
describe the details. You might just try it out, and get back to me with
any bits that you found unclear or lacking.

What's missing is (a) how to set up xdmp access over the network - you get
a browser for remote xdm instances then, and can select a remote machine to
run its session on the local X server, and (b) the alternative of
displaying clients within the local session by starting them either through
rsh(1) (for an isolated, secure home network), or ssh(1) and the assorted
key management.

I haven't done the former, because I do not see the need, and it is
obviously insecure without something like Kerberos. For the latter, there
is quite a bit of information available on the web, and the modified
Xsession script already contains the relevant bits for ssh-askpass and
friends.

>> Feedback is welcome.
>>
>> (The page is hosted on a IIsi, so don't slashdot it  ;)
>
>The 68k boxes we're using can't browse fast enough to cause a
>slashdotting.  ;)

Most people running NetBSD/mac68k these days seem to browse the web from
other machines, including yours truly.  ;)

	hauke


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