On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 08:34 -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > 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. > > So, you want each user to be able to shutdown their own workstations, > and you don't want people to shutdown other workstations. > Correct.
> Seems like a fair request. This is an open source project. Anybody > care to step up and add authentication to ltspinfod? > Ah, well...the thing is we are using LTSP for something specific (grid computing), so there are no interactive users. We run the workstations at runlevel 3 (shell). I'll take a look at ltspinfod to see if we can add a 'server' option to indicate that commands can only come from a given server. This will satisfy us, and may well do for others too. I'll submit a patch to bugzilla if that is okay, and if you decide to accept or reject it I leave that up to you :-) John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
