Subject: GDM and XDMCP

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Steve;

I don't use XDMCP. In its place I installed Xrdp. This way anybody can 
connect and get a GUI login screen to their account. This will handle 
multiple uses all at the same time too. All you need is to use the Windows 
"Remote Desktop Client" for Windows based machines of course. For Linux you 
have "Terminal Service Client". If you choose to do this don't forget to 
start the "xrdpd" service. The RPM package installation scripts seemed to 
take care of everything else.

If you want really secure access you can run the XDP protocol over an ssh 
connection using the port forwarding feature of ssh. I do this all the time 
using "Putty" as my Window's based ssh GUI and the Windows Remote Desktop 
Client.

To gain remote access, from the Internet, to each machine on my home LAN 
each has a fixed IP address and I run the sshd service on a different port 
on each one. The router uses port forwarding to route the ssh traffic to the 
desired machine based on what ssh port I'm using for the connection. 
Changing the default port used for ssh is also a good way to fly under the 
radar from bots probing your front door looking for a way to get in using 
the standard ssh port too.

Once connected you login as a normal user to your account and leave the 
terminal window open. The next step is to start the RDP client application. 
When the GUI login screen pops up just login like you would at the console. 
That's it.

To logout out you just logout as normal from the desktop then logout from 
the terminal window you left open. If you just "quit", close, the GUI window 
you simply logically disconnect from the frame buffer on the remote machine. 
Your apps remain running. If you log back in you will just reconnect to the 
still running applications on the GUI desktop as if you never left.

If you're on a LAN you can skip the ssh part. I have a multi-user Fedora-11 
system setup this way where I work so a group of people can run some custom 
written engineering software. Works great.

73's

Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO
 

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