[FreeNX-kNX] Re: moznx - NX mozilla plugin

[John Nicholls]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 09:28, Gian Filippo Pinzari wrote:
> Hi John ;-)

Hi Gian,

> John Nicholls wrote:
> >>Yes, if you do not have a password in the config file it will
> >>prompt for one in the console.  This is a leftover from nxrun
> >>that was useful in development.  I will probably remove it and
> >>print error message instead.
> > 
> > I think most users would like to have a password, otherwise hackers will
> > have a field day. Is there some way of prompting for it in the browser
> > instead of in the terminal?
> 
> Of course there is, but it would require changes to the
> client code. There is a simpler solution. Create the session
> file on the server and put the password in it. Then download
> the config file along with the plug-in. Be sure you only
> enable SSL connections to the HTTP server and... Voila'. You
> have application publishing the way Citrix does with Presen-
> tation Server. Obviously you should be able to let nxproxy
> inherit the SSL connection established in the browser. This
> way you would have removed the need for a SSH daemon on the
> NX server.

This sounds fantastic!

Time to sell those Citrix shares. 

> A note about the password. Your Web application may create the
> NX password on the fly and void it once the user has finished
> with the session. Obviously even the user can be created on the
> fly. The user would not have any system password, so he could
> not connect outside NX. Why do you think NX is designed to not
> rely on the system passwords to do the job?

Ah Ha, I knew there had to be a good reason for this.

> Next step: let NX start a UML instance (or a Bochs VM with
> Windows) when the user connects and give him the administrator
> password. You have taken virtualization to the next level :-).

This just gets better and better.

I must try Bochs, at the moment I use Vmware for this

> /Gian Filippo.
> 
> 
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John Nicholls