Henning Sprang wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM, O. Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sometimes I need someone to work "via proxy" on a server for me.
In that
case (we talk non-linux, non-command line people) it would be better to have
a gui on the server.
What do you mean by "via proxy" ? Would they login on the monitor
connected to the machine directly, and need a full gui, so acting as a
command input proxy while you give them commands through a phone, or
something like that?
Yes exactly like that
Or would they only need a webbrowser to run the ebox webinterface,
similar to the live CD?
nope that they can do from a workstation
Would it impact ebox in any way to install xubuntu-desktop?
It should be technically easy to do that.
But it really sounds horrible in terms fo security to install so much
gnome and whatever stuff on an important infrastructure machine. At
least I'd try to reduce the software installed to a minimal xserver
and firefox - or whatever software you want the people to use.
Think of it, if people with not much knowledge login as root on a GUI
on such a server, the only thing they need to do is slip out with the
mouse and delete the whole / to crash everything...
well I choose Xubuntu to keep it slim. Root - since when do Ubuntu allow
root login ;-) so I dont see it as THAT horrible a risk. My concern here
is if it would upset the Ebox functionality.
Regards,
Sinclair
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