[K12OSN] Running remote apps on ltsp?

[Petre Scheie]

Do the users all have accounts on the Solaris box already?

John Simovic wrote:
> Thanks Peter but I have over 1000 users so this idea is not appealing to me
> atm. Has to be another way?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Petre Scheie" <petre at maltzen.net>
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Running remote apps on ltsp?
> 
> 
> 
>>I think you'll have to setup all the other users with ssh-with-no-password
> 
> in
> 
>>order for them to be able to call SO by just clicking an icon.  So,
> 
> perhaps this
> 
>>would work (this is off the top of my head) and I think you could script
> 
> it:
> 
>>As root on the linux box, do for each user
>>1. su - to user
>>2. ssh-keygen -t dsa
>>3. cd .ssh/
>>4. cp id_dsa.pub authorized_keys2
>>5. repeat for next user
>>
>>Then you could nfs mount the user's home directories on the Solaris box.
> 
> I
> 
>>havent' tried this to verify it would work.  If it doesn't, then you'd
> 
> have to
> 
>>replace step #4 with copying the id_dsa.pub key to
>>solaris:/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys2.
>>
>>Or you could toss security to the wind and allow rsh and call SO via that.
> 
> But
> 
>>getting that set up would probably take as much work as doing it through
> 
> ssh, so
> 
>>you might as well take the ssh route.
>>
>>Petre
>>
>>John Simovic wrote:
>>
>>>Here is what I want to do: In icewm (on the menu bar), I would like a
> 
> link
> 
>>>(script) which calls StarOffice Writer for example running on another
>>>(SOlaris) server to be able to be invoked by any user who logs on to the
>>>system. How do I achieve this? SSh with no password works fine for me
> 
> but
> 
>>>what about for all users?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
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