On 2012-04-20 16:21, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>
> On Fr 20 Apr 2012 15:59:27 CEST Moritz Struebe wrote:
>
>> On 2012-04-20 13:57, Vasilica Petcu wrote:
>>> 2) User access to only "published applications" can be achieved only
>>> if it doesn't exist a Desktop Environment...
>>
>> No, no and no. x2go is just like "ssh -X". You can't do restrict
>> anything you can't restrict with "ssh -x". There are tool kits that
>> allow to do that, but x2go - opposed to the nx-approach - can not do
>> that - and is still more secure (I won't explain why, because that needs
>> quite a bit insight on how security in linux works).
>
> Maybe a misunderstanding here...
>
> If I hear Vasilica correctly: uninstall GNOME, KDE, LXDE, etc. and you
> won't be able to launch desktop sessions. This is indeed correct! 

He said "User access to only "published applications" " and this is
wrong. I can start any application I wish. And even if there is some
kind of restriction I can still start a second SSH and start any
application by redirecting X to the already established x2go connection.

Morty

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