Hi, On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 02:25, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > Hi! > > What has happened to the terminal services prototype that Mark McLoughlin published on his homepage http:// > people.redhat.com/markmc/terminal-services-demo? The webpage is no longer there and I'm still interested on this. So, the latest status is that I wrote this: http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop-2.html The latest patches are here: http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/gdm-vnc-support.patch http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/vnc-managed.patch http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/vnc-tls.patch And pretty much nothing has been happening with it in the last couple of months due to lack of time. At GUADEC I sat down for a few hours with George Lebl (GDM maintainer) reviewing the code so I've a bunch of notes on stuff that needs to be fixed up before the GDM patch can go upstream. George also pointed out the fact that the authentication mechanism is very heavy (a VNC server and GDM greeter gets launched per-connection) so this design is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. Now, XDMCP is vulnerable in the same way so maybe its not a huge issue, but I think before I'd go any further with the original design I'd investigate whether we could do something like authenticate using SSH and then secure the connection by using an SSH tunnel. However, long term for terminal services I think we'll be looking at using something like NX[1] to improve networked X performance. The nice thing about authenticating/tunnelling with SSH is that it would be equally applicable to NX as to VNC. HTH, Mark. [1] - http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/a-look-at-nomachine-nx.html -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
