On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 05:04, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> Marc wrote:
> > maybe it is possible to configure one of your virtual consoles as a login
> > screen on the remote machine.  This way you can login to the remote
> > machine without local login.
> >
> > I am not sure if it is technically possible.  But I Think this is the way
> > I would do it.  Only problem you have then is that you can only login on
> > a predefined remote machine and not on a random machine.
> >
> > But as I said.  Don know if this is possible because I never tried, and
> > probably never wiil.
> >
> > marc
>
> I've done something like that. Open a console, and use it for an XDM
> connection, on a second X Server with something like:
>
> X -once -query <remote hostname> :1
>
> Or some such to get an X session on the remote machine. But you'd still
> need to be logged in locally... Hmm..
>
> You could set the local machine up as a dumb X-Term (XDM to the remote
> machine only), but I don't quite see the point.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Ric
>

But isn't this a graphical remote login?
I want a text-based one, only :)

Thanks,
pesarif

> > On Friday 04 January 2002 05:48 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote:
> > > > Hello again!
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to login to a remote system (console login only
> > > > because it doesn't have X), without having to login locally (as with
> > > > telnet and ssh)?
> > > >
> > > > Because with X terminals, you are actually logging in to the remote
> > > > system; While with telnet/ssh, you have to login to the system you're
> > > > sitting in front of first, before you can actually telnet into the
> > > > remote system and then log into that.
> > >
> > > Not really. If I understand you correctly, you want to login to a
> > > remote machine without logging into a local one? Though you can do this
> > > with xdm and its variants, I don't know of a way to do this from the
> > > shell.
> >
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