Hans Ekbrand wrote:
>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.
>
XDMCP is only used for querying possible hosts, which VNC just doesn't
do. There's no problem tunneling X, so I can't see what VNC would gain.
>
>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.
>
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