[FreeNX-kNX] Re: getting nx to work with non-standard PAM setup

[chris at ccburton.com]

Alex Aminoff <aminoff at nber.org> wrote on 28/01/2011 13:23:40:
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, chris at ccburton.com wrote:
> 
> > The logging in of the user to FreeNX is done with an "expect" script 
which
> > you can test yourself,
> > 
> > eg  run:-
> > 
> >      /usr/bin/nxnode-login ssh aminoff 22 /usr/bin/nxnode --check
> > 
> > The script waits with NO prompt for you to enter your password.
> 
> Thank you so much! That is exactly what we need to figure this all out!

Let us know how you get on !!

> 
> > Not really. Nomachine don't have anything to do with FreeNX.
> > 
> > In fact nomachine seem to be a bit annoyed with the proliferation of
> > Open Source nxagent launchers, which seem to be getting associated
> > with them, so much so that the next version of the nx libraries and
> > Xserver (nxagent) won't be Open Source.
> > 
> > I suspect X is on its way out now anyway though.
> 
> OK. What do you see as replacing X?

At the moment wayland is the most likely (it runs x.org as a client).

> 
> To briefly explain what we would like to do: after logging in with two 
> factor authentication, we would like to let our users run Stata, a 
> windowed statistics package. Stata on unix has an X gui, I don't foresee 

> them changing that any time soon.

Thet won't need to !!

> 
>   - Alex________________________________________________________________
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