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Re: autologin for thin clients



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On 09-09-2004 19:02, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

| with sdm, you could configure the thin client to use ssh keys for
| autologin.
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| since it uses ssh to encrypt the whole session, you get secure
| connections between the server and terminal, though it may require
| faster hardware.

Beware of false advertising: The connection is truly secure only if
private keys are not public (to the local network) accessible (which is
currently _not_ the case with sdm+lessdisks).

The security part is off course irrelevant if the goal is wide open (to
the local network), passwordless login.

~ - Jonas

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* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
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