oregonbob
September 26th, 2012, 12:28 AM
I often use the NX application from nomachine.com to remote access to Ubuntu gnome, unity and xfce desktops, utilizing ssh port for encryption/access. From my experience nothing else comes close in performance or experience. There is one bug I find very frustrating, that is that Ubuntu does not think an NX is a secure terminal (such as the console) so it will not allow menu choices such as users-admin, shutdown/restart. I have found a workaround by ignoring menu choices, jumping to a terminal session and then using "gksu command" instead of choosing from the menu. For example from a terminal session command line I can "gksu nohup shutdown -r now &" to restart the system.
It sure would be nice if I could get Ubuntu to think the terminal ID of an NX session is secure and therefore allow administrative apps. If I login via NX and do a 'tty' command it shows my terminal connection as "/dev/pts/2". In the old days you could add the tty device names to a file in /etc so they are recongized as secure for admin, but that doesn't work anymore.
Has anyone figured out how to enable administrative apps to work in NX?
It sure would be nice if I could get Ubuntu to think the terminal ID of an NX session is secure and therefore allow administrative apps. If I login via NX and do a 'tty' command it shows my terminal connection as "/dev/pts/2". In the old days you could add the tty device names to a file in /etc so they are recongized as secure for admin, but that doesn't work anymore.
Has anyone figured out how to enable administrative apps to work in NX?