I am only running on a remote network. It is not exposed to the "outside world", so I don't have any security risks that I am concerned about. If you could provide me with more complete instructions, I would be very appreciative.
Thank you, Ben Simmons Rasjid Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:16 pm, Benjamin Simmons wrote: > > I am getting an error that makes me assume that I have some kind of X > > permission wrong. > > > > I edited the following files: > > /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config > > /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess > > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf > > > > > > Is there something else I must do? > > > > If I ssh to the remote machine: ssh -X -l username ipaddress > > The current message I am getting is: > > > > "PAM authentication has failed cannot start the X server. Perhaps you > > do > > not have console ownership. . . . . . " > > > > I think you are confusing two completely different ways of running X over a > network. > > You can > a) use xdm/gdm/kdm > b) use ssh -X > > a) xdm/gdm/kdm is a little work to set up on the server side, but it makes > client side configuration trivial. Once set up correctly, XWin.exe -query > <server.ip> is basically all each host needs to do. Its main downside is > that it is inherently insecure, as all communcation between the workstation > and the server is unencrypted, including any passwords typed into dialog > boxes. > > However, I can send details on the full xdm/gdm/kdm thing if you like. > > b) ssh -X works best if you already have a fully running X setup on your local > machine, and just want to run specific programs on the server. However, with > a little bit of work it may be possible to get a scripted secure Xsession > running, which starts up KDE or GNOME on the server rather than locally. My > attempts to do this simply have only partly worked. As far as I can tell, > both 'startkde' and 'gnome-session' expect to be run locally (at least on > RH7.3), and have some trouble with the SSH connection, although they mostly > work. The best option seems to be to comment out the 'twm' line in the > Cygwin-XFree startxwin.sh/bat and change the '/bin/bash' in the xterm line to > '/usr/bin/sh -X user@server' and then run either gnome or kde from the > resulting xterm. > > Rasjid.
