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Yea I’ve been curious about this. As mentioned, back in the day, you’d connect to a terminal server which would connect you to a random host. You’d login to th
by whartung 1y ago
Yea I’ve been curious about this.
As mentioned, back in the day, you’d connect to a terminal server which would connect you to a random host. You’d login to that host (using a shared credential managed by yellow pages, maybe — this was pre-LDAP). Once logged in, something like mountd would mount your home directory from the NFS server and off you go.
Not a lot of these kinds of systems out there today. Curious how a modern one would be managed and secured.
- appease7727 1y agoI've been digging into this for years and it seems the consensus is simply RDP of some flavor. Mainly VNC derivatives and NX. NoMachine ticks all the boxes, it can manage spawning shells and passing audio and files. But I dunno, I just don't like it that much. It's not at all the same kind of magic that X forwarding is.
- bluGill 1y agoWe had those terminal servers, but also full work stations that you logged into directly. x forwarding is magic when you can share/ use an expensive/powerful computer but most of the time the local computer is fast and cheap (these days a modern destop run circles around a then supercomputer)
- immibis 1y agoWell, we had this at university. I think it's just running some protocol to sync user database (yp/nis/ldap/something) and amd to automount home dirs. You want to mount all home dirs on first access, not just who's logged in, unless you want to prevent people sharing files by Unix file permissions. Or mount the whole of /home, but then it has to go through one server.