[K12OSN] Running remote apps on ltsp?

John Simovic jsimovic at tpg.com.au
Tue Jul 20 21:25:53 UTC 2004


No unfortunately.

----- 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 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Running remote apps on ltsp?


> 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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