[Tfug] headless systems

[Bexley Hall]

--- Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com> wrote:

> We use ssh on all our servers, whether they are in
> the same room or in a
> different country. Never had any problems with it.
> Works fine with Suse,
> Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu... We no longer use telnet or
> ftp. I guess there
> is no advantage to using ssh on a LAN, but for us

Unless you *know* your LAN is physically secure
and *trust* everyone in your organization (i.e. they
all have root's password), then you still have a need
to run ssh on a LAN

> there is no reason not
> to use it as it works just fine. Helps to keep the
> interface to all our
> servers somewhat consistent.
> 
> You can install a desktop and then use VNC to
> connect to it remotely.
> Also I think KDE has a remote desktop feature built
> in. I've yet to
> investigate vnc4server which I believe starts the
> desktop on demand when
> a VNC connection is made.

Why not just run a X session on it?  xdm(1) is
your friend...


       
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