On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:34:48PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2002 02:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > ltsp uses telnet for connection -> no encryption.
LTSP does NOT use telnet, it uses XDMCP. > It would be the simplest to > do everything over ssh, that's perfectly secure. There is a lts_ssh package, though I have not tried it. > Actually, why doesn't ltsp use ssh instead of telnet? It is > 1) easier to configure (X authentication) > 2) secure > 3) doesn't use too much cpu power either, maybe 5 percent of the cycles that > the X server uses. XDMCP cannot be used over SSH since it uses UDP instead of TCP. So, if you use X-forwarding over SSH, there is no way to get a login prompt from a display manager. -- Hans Ekbrand
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