Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-09-2004 19:48, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: |>What do the administration courses recommend? | | | For beginners, out of the set of available X-less text editors, mcedit is the | one to prefer. It's the one that goes witch midnight commander (mc) whi

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Gavin, thank you for raising your question. I also wonder why root cannot start kedit or the like from konsole when the KDE session belongs to a mortal user. Am Samstag 25 September 2004 14:19 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: > As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K Menu as > p

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:26 +0200, Espen Myrland wrote: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > passwd: This is fine if you are physically at the server, but if you are logged in from a thin client to LTSP, your password typing will go over the network in clear-text, since the X11 connection between the serve

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-09-2004 14:19, Gavin McCullagh wrote: | As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K Menu as | permissions will not allow it. They can't su root and start an X-based | editor either (X security prevents this). If you talk about a

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Espen Myrland
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > 1. su root and use a text based editor (eg vim, nano, emacs-nox, jed, ...) > 2. Login to KDE as root (I don't think this is a good idea). > 3. They don't. > 4. Something else? > > As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:19, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K Menu as > permissions will not allow it. They can't su root and start an X-based > editor either (X security prevents this). you can do 'kdesu kate' to start kate with root

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Kurt
* Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040925 14:29]: > On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > 1. su root and use a text based editor (eg vim, nano, emacs-nox, jed, ...) > > 2. Login to KDE as root (I don't think this is a good idea). > > 3. They don't. > > 4. Something else? >

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > 1. su root and use a text based editor (eg vim, nano, emacs-nox, jed, ...) > 2. Login to KDE as root (I don't think this is a good idea). > 3. They don't. > 4. Something else? 5. "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and run eg 'kate&' 6. a K Men

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > Q: How to enable mouse wheel on thin clients? > A: Change PS/2 to ImPS/2 on LTSP, file /etc/ltsp/lts.conf What happens if the users have PS/2, Logitech or other mice on their network too? Might this be better set per host in webmin->ltsp? T