On 2/25/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (he heard of XDMCP from somewhere). I literally had to put a gun to his > head and make him do all his work via putty. Put that gun away! Your DBA is totally right. Remote GUI is *exactly* the way to handle this. You have a much more secure server automatically protected from X server security flaws (setuid, runs as root, crazy memory access required = it's gonna happen again), and yet you as an admin have the full GUI at your disposal.
He doesn't need a GUI for anything that he does. The only application that I've seen him use is gnome-terminal! -- Regards Vivek Registered Linux User #374218 Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) Linux 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 x86_64
