Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:44:56 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: chris@bb.cc.wa.us (Chris Coleman) Subject: Re: Small Disk Xterminal Message-ID: <19970327094456.GL01749@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970326224530.20364A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>; from Chris Coleman on Mar 26, 1997 22:56:59 -0800 References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970326224530.20364A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>
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As Chris Coleman wrote: > I assume I will use NFS to set up the Xwindows applications that I want to > run. You probably want only a root/var filesystem and swap on the clients. Mount /usr read/only from the server. Watch out to fixup some of the default app-defaults and config files (like that of xdm) to use /var to write temporary data (session log, Xauth cookies etc.). The default setup unfortunately tries to write them to /usr/X11R6. > I want the users at the X terminals to be logging in to the FreeBSD > machine becuase I don't want to have several accounts for my users. Will > this require NIS? Or can the XDM some how handle this? You want them to authenticate at the server only? XDMCP is your friend. Simply start an Xserver as ``X -query <servername>''. Of course, the server needs to run an xdm. If you don't have a local display on the server, comment out the local entry in /usr/X11R6/lib/xdm/Xservers (so it will only listen on the network). You want to have a loop around the server start, or start the Xserver from within /etc/ttys, so it comes up again after somebody hit Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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