On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Em 04-06-2014 10:29, Predrag Punosevac escreveu:
>> I was not able to connect to X2Go server without GSSAPIAuthentication
>> yes I can send you the picture of error from x2go client via private
>> e-mail if you want.
> I don't doubt you. And its not that you can't connect. I had this
> problem in the past, the connection will appear to hang and it might be
> well more than a minute before you have a shell on the machine. Try
> logging in with ssh -vvv and see what happens. But this is an issue with
> your ssh clients (assuming linux clients here), rather than your OpenBSD
> openssh server. You could try the following configuration in your ssh
> clients:
>
> Host *
>      GSSAPIAuthentication no
>
>> Why? This OpenBSD machine serves no other purposes but to be shell
>> gateway. What will happen if it gets hacked?
> What happens when any other machine gets hacked. Nothing more, nothing
> less. Giving your users shell access, even when they don't have root
> access, you are opening yourself to bugs that aren't otherwise
> exploitable. So, in this case, there is little you can do, just always
> follow openbsd stable and keep your environment as clean as possible.
>> Well then I am already in trouble because probably my computing nodes
>> and my users which I am trying to protect are hacked. As somebody who
>> is maintaining OpenVPN server and 20 or so clients on our LAB remote
>> location I am intimately familiar how "simple" is VPN solution. The
>> Lab exists to serve the needs of people who have access to shell
>> gateway machine no the other way around.
> There are lots of options for "simplifying" OpenVPN deploying. You could
> generate a windows installer with the users certificates, or, you could
> drop certs altogether and use only user/pass authentication. Or use the
> same certs for every user in combination with user/pass. Also, you don't
> need necessarily to use OpenVPN. There is the l2tp/ipsec option, plain
> ipsec and (argh) pptp. Depending on which operating system your clients
> are using, they can have all of these vpn options already installed with it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Giancarlo Razzolini
> GPG: 4096R/77B981BC
>


+giancarlo if you have an OpenBSD setup that provide an ipsec vpn
working for windows
AND ipad AND android I would really be listenning carefully how you
perform that.


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