On Thursday 04 April 2002 11:35 pm, you wrote: > I now have a seecion script for gdm which runs: > > exec /usr/bin/ssh -CAnq remote /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession IceWM > > Which works fine. It also doesn't frighten my mom or brother away with a > command line. ;-) > > This setup would make a nifty demo, someone could bring in an old 486/586 > and set it up as a dummy x termnial, hopefuly without a hard drive and show > off it running software over the ethernet at good speeds. Then unplug the > cable and watch everything butthe mouse stop then start up again when it's > plugged back in (just don't let ssh time out in the meantime). > > On Thursday 04 April 2002 10:45 pm, you wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:01:49AM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > > Well, I've managed to setup an old pentium box as an x termnial, and I > > > like it very much. Tunneled over a compressed ssh connection, the lag > > > is hardly noticable. > > > > If you are on a LAN, just disable the compression and things should > > be faster. If not you might want to try level 1 compression instead > > of 6 which is the default. > > It's not really a problem at 6. I will try setting it to 1 in the login > script. > > > > I can get a remote window manager by going in to gdm and seleting > > > failsafe xterm then running 'ssh -Cf foo blackbox' but this is > > > annoying. Is there a way to automate this with gdm? > > > > This is a theory that has not been tested or researched... it's > > possible that you have to do other things in the 'new' gnome world. > > > > Edit your .xsession file to specify the series of commands you want > > run when you log in. If you put some shell script that knows how to > > pop up a graphical prompt for your ssh password you should be able to > > even have a secured private key (without using ssh-agent). > > I know it's not the most secure thing in the world, but it's convient and > my private lan is behind a firewall. > > I could also just stick the private keys on floppys or cds > > If anyone knows how to get ssh-askpass to popup instead of asking for the > pass on a command line, i'd like to hear it.
Err.... if you run it without a console it'll ask you in a popup window. > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
