[X2Go-User] Is x2goserver available?

[Robert Dinse]

      For what it's worth I installed the packages for Ubuntu on Mint and it is
working.  Have I introduced a grave security problem?

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On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:13:56 +0100
> From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de>
> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Is x2goserver available?
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> Am 06.01.2015 um 20:21 schrieb Peter Brodsky:
>> Running Linux Mint 15 (olivia), I'm trying to install x2goserver.
> [Unable to locate package x2goserver, only client packages available]
>
>> Am I missing something obvious?
>
> About one and a half years ago, there was a grave security bug in Mint
> - - which they seem to consider a design decision and didn't want to fix
> at that time - that made usage of Linux Mint as an x2go server
> environment a no-go (unless manually fixed).
> You can read up on all the gory details here:
> http://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287
>
> I'm not sure, maybe there are currently no x2go server packages for
> Mint due to the fact that we don't want to expose unsuspecting
> users/admins to that risk?
>
> $SOMEONE should check if the Mint guys have come to their senses and
> fixed that issue.
>
> @Mike#1: Did we pull x2goserver images for Mint due to that?  Or is
> there another reason why Peter is seeing this issue?
>
> - -Stefan
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