[X2Go-Dev] X2Go Client - new features and bugfix

[Oleksandr Shneyder]

Hello Mike,

this patch:

http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goclient.git;a=commitdiff;h=6f9ead7cf9184799f0b6ae9ff1efd0c7b879d0c6

should fix the issue.

regards,
Alex

Am 13.12.2013 02:25, schrieb Michael DePaulo:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Oleksandr Shneyder
> <o.shneyder at phoca-gmbh.de> wrote:
>> 1. Support for GSSApi (Kerberos 5) authentication.
>>
>> http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2goclient.git;a=commit;h=a77d761dbb16d28206e7c2446654539935746e4e
>>
>> It works on Linux, Windows (MIT Kerberos) and Mac. Unfortunately stable
>> version of libssh not supporting gssapi yet. X2Go Client using OpenSSH
>> client (ssh, scp) on Mac and Linux for GSSApi authentication. On Windows
>> X2Go Client using CLI tools "plink" and "pscp", which are the part of
>> free and OS project PUTTY
>> (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)
>>
>> @Windows developers: please note that X2Go Client Windows build should
>> include plink and pscp binaries, this binaries can be found here:
>> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
>>
>> As soon as gssapi support will be enabled in stable version of libssh,
>> 3d-party ssh clients will be not used by X2Go Client any more.
> 
> Oleksandr,
> 
> 1st of all, thank you very much for implementing this! As someone with
> a windows AD domain at home and at work, this feature is extremely
> useful when it does work.
> 
> 2nd, as the new windows package maintainer, I uploaded
> x2goclient-4.0.1.2-pre03 (and x2goclient-4.0.1.2.interims-pre03) with
> the current plink.exe and pscp.exe (versions 0.63) to the x2go server.
> Mike Gabriel will most likely make this pre03 version available to
> publicly download tomorrow (he just went to bed.)
> 
> 3rd, it appears as if whenever plink has any sort of error, having
> GSSAPI auth enabled for the session crashes the Windows x2goclient. It
> took me a bunch of effort to make plink's GSSAPI authentication work,
> I intend to document this work on the wiki. Note that my setup is a
> Windows Server 2012 AD domain controller, x2goserver 4.0.1.9 from EPEL
> running on centos 6.4 64-bit with Samba 3.6's winbind for domain
> membership, and a Windows 8.1 64-bit domain member client (I also
> tested the x2goclient on my Windows Server 2012 DC also). But the
> bottom line is that I expect LOTS of Windows users to run into
> x2goclient crashes whenever they enable GSSAPI. They can avoid these
> crashes by disabling GSSAPI for the session (so it's not as severe a
> problem as bug #109), but I would strongly prefer if you could fix the
> crashes before we launch 4.0.1.2. If you can't make Windows x2goclient
> easily fall back to password auth when GSSAPI auth fails, at least
> give the user a message to disable GSSAPI auth.
> 
> -Mike
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