On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:43:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > Im setting up an ltsp env. for test purposes, in a large company. > The question is, is it possible to encrypt the traffic between the terminal > and the server? how is the traffic handled, and what about sniffers? > this is an important question for the company, and if it is possible, I need > to know how it's done.
Possible to some extend, but involves some work. Using switches rather than hubs eliminates the sniffer problem, and improves performance greatly. If that level of security does not satisfy the company there are other measures. The following comes to my mind, but there must be other alternatives too. XDMCP is insecure by nature since it cannot be tunneled over SSH. As I understand it you could use VNC instead, which can be tunneled over SSH. Or, you could have local apps setup to run ssh, and run the windowmanager and all other x-clients at the LTSP server, tunneled over SSH. -- Hans Ekbrand
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