[X2Go-User] Is there a broker that does NOT require root to install?

[Dr Agile]

My use case:
Remote desktop, for helpdesk / support  (remote clients).

I want to replace TeamViewer., to not use 3rd party services, to keep it
"in house", and reduce costs.

I'm new to x2go, and just trying to find out the setup for this scenario.

I thought that each customer will be the server,
I'll be the client,
and to cross the NAT to NAT barrier via a "broker" on my server. To
my usage it should've been a small piece of software.

I already have mysql on my server.


On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:15 PM Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de> wrote:

> Am 26.04.20 um 10:57 schrieb Dr Agile:
>
> > Is there a precompiled static binary, or a python / php script I can use
> > with apache?
>
> The question is what you have in mind with your broker.  If you need to
> distribute load between multiple X2GoServer instances, then you will
> need a central postgres (or MySQL) instance that all X2GoServers can
> talk to, and you will need to share home directories among them, too.
>
> That doesn't sound feasible on a shared host where you don't even have
> root permissions.
>
> If all you want to do is deploy a central configuration for one single
> X2GoServer, and all your users have SSH access on that server, then you
> might want to use the SSH-(rather than HTTP)-based Minibroker that was
> just committed to the X2Go Repo.  It's still lacking a manpage, and
> thus, not packaged yet.
>
> <
> https://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2gobroker.git;a=blob_plain;f=contrib/x2go-mini-sshbroker;h=59798bc191f525830b6c341e5ab0767fc6d97f9c;hb=f663ea3bd4a083a14f480ac5048f4e67e9e8eedc
> >
>
> While there's no package for this yet, you should save it as
> /usr/local/bin/x2go-mini-sshbroker and chmod 755 it.
>
> The broker URL would be
> --broker-url=ssh://yoursshusername@yourservers.dns.or.ip
> :/usr/local/bin/x2go-mini-sshbroker
>
> And if you're using an SSH agent, you could add --broker-autologin to that.
>
> I do wonder, though - if you don't have root, how did you manage to get
> X2GoServer installed?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan Baur
>
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