Hi Nikos,
On Sa 20 Nov 2010 18:12:16 CET Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 11/20/2010 12:03 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi Nikos,
On Sa 20 Nov 2010 01:04:25 CET Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I followed the instructions in the Wiki and installed x2goserver-one
on my Debian Lenny server. However, during the installation, it told me:
Attention: If you want to allow users to log into the x2go system,
you'll need to add them to the "x2gousers" group
but then it went on all on its own and added all users (about 300) of
the system to the "x2gousers" as well as "fuse" groups! How do I undo
that? Right now, I need to click around for hours in the Users and
Groups admin tool :-$
The x2goserver-one package is intended for little Ubuntu systems...
(standalone, sqlite, make your desktop reachable from home). So the
auto-adding for groupmember is intended here, I suppose (make it easy
for the user).
For bigger installations/contexts use the x2goserver package (no -home,
no -one at the end of the package name) with PostgreSQL DB backend, the
x2goserver package does not impose auto-groupmemberships on you.
I don't understand what a "big installation/context" is.
That's a terminal server, for example.
Most admins just want a remote desktop for the servers they
administer. Me too. I don't have a reason to use Postgre for anything.
In this case the sqlite version is preferable. I never have problems
with the scripts as my user DB is always LDAP. Thus, only my local
admin user gets added automatically.
I guess Gerry is right with his posting, only users with a local home
may be added. Much nicer would be a debconf selection screen that
allows the administrator to manually select X2go users from a list of
local passwd user.
So it's a big server, and I want a remote desktop to it for
administrative purposes. Do you recommend to install Postgre and
the normal x2goserver on it?
Nope, not in that case.
I was under the impression that the home version was -home. The one
person version was -one. I'm one person, and I want me, and only
me, to be able to login per x2go. So I installed -one.
As I have already written in my other posting: always test software on
non-production systems. Once you have done that you know about the
caveats and then things like this do not happen.
I suggest the installation to be adapted to this. -home might add
users to x2gousers, but why -one?
I rather suggest a line of documentation in the wiki... Changing
package names after many people have already installed them is nasty...
Also, what's the point in adding users like "apache" and "mysql" to
x2gousers and fuse?
This has never happened on my systems that I access as a local
administrator. You are using Ubuntu... what version? Are you using
apache and mysql from the Ubuntu archive or do you have a special
blend of the LAMP software. The X2go x2goconfigusers script only adds
users that have uidNumber 1000-29999. The apache and mysql user should
be system users, that is have a uidNumber <1000. So maybe there is
something irregular...
For further reference: adding users to X2go groups in GIT:
http://git.x2go.org/?a=viewblob&p=x2go&h=5025991b72d4f67006e9998bd9ee7f1a1be4c43d&hb=38b730a075cc77f747acf6fe585e0aeb728dda55&f=db-builds/x2goserver-one/x2goserver-one-3.0.1/x2goconfigusers
Greetings,
Mike
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