Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

[Vivek J. Patankar]

On 2/25/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> > (he heard of XDMCP from somewhere). I literally had to put a gun to his
> > head and make him do all his work via putty.
> Put that gun away! Your DBA is totally right. Remote GUI is *exactly* the
> way to handle this. You have a much more secure server automatically
> protected from X server security flaws (setuid, runs as root, crazy memory
> access required = it's gonna happen again), and yet you as an admin have the
> full GUI at your disposal.

He doesn't need a GUI for anything that he does. The only application
that I've seen him use is gnome-terminal!

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Regards
Vivek

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