[K12OSN] Running remote apps on ltsp?

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

> 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?
>> >
>
Well ,all the users have already ssh keys, right? add the public keys to
~/.ssh/authorized_keys. run ssh-add at login time and you can run anything
as asily as with rsh, but securely.
julius