On Friday 05 September 2003 10:32 pm, Thinker wrote:
I've seen posts where people have been telneting or sshing into boxes within their own office. Is this correct? And if so, is there a way that I can set this machine up and then just leave the keyboard and mouse attached with the machine sitting in the corner (still on the network) and access everything on it? Even Gnome, OpenOffice, Evolution, and such?
You're probably best off SSHing to the box. I'd recommend disabling telnet and rlogin in favour of SSH: SSH traffic is encrypted. Telnet and rlogin are not. As an aside FTP should also be avoided in favour of sftp and scp for similar reasons. If you need to use X apps, then ssh -X to your box. Then just run the commands on command line (probably with & so you don't have to open a new session for every command you want to run) as you would normally. You will have to enable X in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config (on the remote machine): X11Forwarding yes More info: man ssh man sshd HTH Jon -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon