On November 21, 2005 03:30 pm, Jarrod Major wrote: > Hey Rob, I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. Advising Kin to turn on > PermitRootLogin is not a good idea. > > Kin, you can su to Root once you have logged in via a permitted user. > Allowing root login via SSH is frowned upon as a security risk. If you are > going to do this, then I would suggest you look at certificate based > authentication instead of username/password authentication. > > Jarrod On re-reading the email I have to agree with Jamie. Although its possible to get the desktop environmant to forward through X its not obvious how to do that. Also when I read my response its obvious that I was asleep (yes I take your advice that ssh as root is verboten). The more obvious thing that happens in distros is that X11Forwarding is turned off. That results is being logged in but when you start an X application it says it can't find a display.
In terms of running a destop environment I think that raw X as opposed to FreeNX would result in a SLOW response. BTW, just out of curiosity and I know that FreeNX and VNC are better solutions, if a person were to forward X to a remote computer and entered 'startkde' would that start a KDE desktop on the remote machine? What would happen to any currently running X display manager? Wouldn't that bork things up on the local machine? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
