Robert Lewko wrote: >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? > > > Thanks, I will check the configuration on the server to ensure that I don't have X11 forwarding turned off.
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