Hello everyone !
I would like to configure remote login to CentOS 7 servers using x2go and allow multiple login with the same user i.e. many users use the same ID and password to log in at the same time. Does x2go allow it?
I explain below a little bit more our infra :
- We use NIS as user authentication
- We have more than 10 different Linux workstations
- Each colleague can connect on every workstations
- We use generic account for some purpose i.e. many users use the same ID and password Do you thing that this is possible to configure with x2go? If yes, what are the steps to follow? What desktop environment (MATE, XFCE, GNOME ...) will be best adapted? Thanks! Kanssoune
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On 3/17/21 7:24 AM, kanssoune.saliya@external.tractebel.engie.com wrote:
Hello everyone !
I would like to configure remote login to CentOS 7 servers using x2go and allow multiple login with the same user i.e. many users use the same ID and password to log in at the same time.
Does x2go allow it?
I explain below a little bit more our infra :
- We use NIS as user authentication
- We have more than 10 different Linux workstations
- Each colleague can connect on every workstations
- We use generic account for some purpose i.e. many users use the same ID and password
Do you thing that this is possible to configure with x2go? If yes, what are the steps to follow? What desktop environment (MATE, XFCE, GNOME …) will be best adapted?
I don't think X2Go will have any particular issue with this. However I'm pretty sure that at least KDE can throw a fit with multiple sessions of the same user running on the same machine. So I think the choice of desktop will be your limiting factor here.
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Am 18.03.21 um 03:48 schrieb Orion Poplawski:
I would like to configure remote login to CentOS 7 servers using x2go and allow multiple login with the same user i.e. many users use the same ID and password to log in at the same time.
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* We use generic account for some purpose i.e. many users use the same ID and password
Do you thing that this is possible to configure with x2go? If yes, what are the steps to follow? What desktop environment (MATE, XFCE, GNOME …) will be best adapted?
I don't think X2Go will have any particular issue with this. However I'm pretty sure that at least KDE can throw a fit with multiple sessions of the same user running on the same machine. So I think the choice of desktop will be your limiting factor here.
Aside from account sharing being bad security practice and a bad idea in general, yes, some desktop environments will be more suitable than others for this.
Of course, running X2GoClient in Published Application Mode (with --autostart to start the desired application right after the X2GoClient's login to the X2GoServer) would help avoiding this problem altogether, because then no remote desktop environment is involved, but this mode comes with autoresume enabled by default, meaning, if there is exactly one session in a suspended state, this one will be resumed instead of a new one being created. To avoid this, you can run X2GoClient with --no-autoresume as an additional parameter - then it will always prompt you if you want to resume or create a new one if at least one suspended session is detected.
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