On Tue, November 8, 2005 13:17, Joe Auerbach wrote:
>            You're saying that once they are logged ino the ltsp machine
> they can then initiate a tenet connection to that machine via
> the ltsp login (effectively telnetting to their own ip address
> and using their own login and password) to shut down the
> machine?
>
No. Anyone can telnet to an LTSP client and shutdown the machine or reboot
it. That is my point - it's a security issue. From my work PC - which has
nothing to do with LTSP - I shutdown several LTSP clients at our site
simply by telnetting to their IP adress and issuing the relevant ltspinfo
command. Having said that, it is required that the 'ALLOW_SHUTDOWN'
variable is set in the lts.conf file, but we want that because we want our
LTSP server to shutdown the clients. However, doing this means that anyone
can shut them down, not just the server.


John.

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