[K12OSN] Feedback from a teacher on FC10/LTSP and Tuxpaint

[Peter Scheie]

LDM_DIRECTX=YES encrypts the login but not the X session.  LTSP 5 does not use 
gdm, as it has no provision for encryption, and passing user IDs & PWs cleartext 
is not a good thing, even in a school setting.  Setting LDM_DIRECTX=NO will 
encrypt the entire session, which some people need, but also requires faster 
hardware in the client.

Peter

Almquist Burke wrote:
> I was thinking that by default only the login screen was encrypted, but 
> I'm not sure now. Plus there are two lts.conf files an empty one in 
> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/ and one in /var/lib/tftpboot//arch//
> II guess I'm a little confused about that.
> 
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 2:07 PM, David Hopkins wrote:
> 
>>> Does the LTSP 5 setup have all X traffic encrypted by chance?
>>
>> I thought I had the encryption turned off via
>>
>> LDM_DIRECTX=YES
>>
>> Is there a way to just not use LDM at all and just use gdm?  TBH I am
>> not that worried about having anything intercepted between the server
>> and the clients. This is a standard 2 NIC setup.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dave Hopkins
>>
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