[FreeNX-kNX] nxcl 2.x branch

[George Wright]

On Saturday 31 May 2008 15:39:43 Johnny Hughes wrote:
> George Wright wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > - Remove dependency on nxssh and replace with openssh. Investigate
> > solution for Windows.
>
> This change caused me issues when I got a version out of SVN for the 0.9
> nxcl library and tried to connect on CentOS using QtNX.
>
> I am not sure exactly what the problem was, however when I took that
> change out and used nxssh, everything worked fine.  This was with
> nx-3.2.0 and freenx-0.7.2.
>
> I have know idea exactly what caused this problem as I did not
> troubleshoot it (I think it had to do with -t ssh options and newer ssh
> versions and pseudo-tty allocation), but it seems to me with the
> different versions of ssh out there that it would be hard to pass in the
> correct switches to login all the time and that the best (non
> distro/version specific) way would be to use nxssh.

This is not an option as it introduces security vulnerabilities due to the use 
of two forks of the same piece of security-critical software on the same 
machine. At the very least leaving the nxssh dependency goes against Debian 
and Ubuntu policies making it unpackagable for them.

Regards,

George

-- 
George Wright, http://www.gwright.org.uk
KDE Developer - http://www.kde.org
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