X2Go Bug report logs - #372
x2goadmin writes to users homes

Package: x2goserver; Maintainer for x2goserver is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goserver is src:x2goserver.

Reported by: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:18:02 UTC

Severity: serious

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On 13-12-16 08:49, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> Hi Reinhard,
> 
> On  So 15 Dez 2013 01:13:35 CET, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> >Package: x2goserver
> >Severity: serious
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >my understanding of the x2goadmin code [code], end of sub add_user, is
> >that the code tries to write the sql password in users homes. This
> >will fail for installations that have the user homes on NFS with the
> >option "rootsquash" mounted.
> >
> >I set the severity to "serious" because I imagine that this is a
> >rather common scenario.
> >
> >Also, this approach has another problem: Imagine you want to give
> >access to the unix group "staff"? According to the documentation, you
> >can use the options "--addgroup" and "--rmgroup" for this. What if a
> >new employee joins the company later and wants to use x2go? In this
> >case you need to call x2godbadmin for this new user again, which is
> >suboptimal.
> >
> >Is there really no way to get around generated user passwords?

There is a way that could work: If configured correctly, postgresql can
use GSSAPI (Kerberos) Authentication. That way, the user is
authenticated using his login ticket cache which is created anyways.
If necessary, one could also provide a keyfile for the cleanup-cronjob
so that it can at least access the database with sufficient permissions. 

But I have never tried this with x2go and don't know if it would work.



Ciao,

Alexander Wuerstlein.

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