[K12OSN] NEW HOWTO - Setup a Simple Application Server - PART V

[Petre Scheie]

Much more graceful than my script!  I had a hunch there was a better way 
to do it.

Petre

Immanuel Derks wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 17:55, Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
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>>Hi List...
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>> I have done Part V, Part V goes through howto make desktop
>> launchers to the apps on your new Appserver..
>> go have a quick look @ http://www.leighctc.kent.sch.uk/gsp/
>> Click on the Application Server HOWTO
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>Nicely done. We did the same kind of seperation of X & Apps but make the
>scripting a little different:
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>-There is no need for expect or tcl, juist
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>ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -C '' -N ''
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>will generate keys without the need for user intervention.
>Likewise will 
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>ssh-keyscan -t rsa "appserver_ip,xserver_ip " > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
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>obsolete the need for user intervention while handshaking with the
>server.
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>We put this as a little script in de /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ dir so
>the keys are generated on the fly while users login through GDM/KDM.
>The old keys are throw away while logging out with the purge_user
>script. (added for a little more security).
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>The appserver needs it's home dirs to be mounted on the X_server because
>apps like mozilla and openoffice generate a lot of userdependant data,
>also does it make for consistent file browsing to be on "1" server.
>
>Kind regards,
>Immanuel Derks 
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