From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 27 00:46:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14703 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA14688 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:46:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA06398; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:46:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA16949; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:44:56 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970327094456.GL01749@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Coleman on Mar 26, 1997 22:56:59 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ''. 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. ;-)