[CentOS] How do graphical admin tools requiring root get authentication?

Fri Mar 14 17:41:41 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Samuel Winchenbach <swinchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike, thanks for the response.
>
> Unfortunately this image is:
> A) Aimed at those with very little Linux knowledge
> B) Required to be accessible from multiple OSes with minimal client
> installation.
>
> Really I would like to either track down why the consolehelper/PAM
> authentication does not work over xrdp (My next step is try straight vnc)
> or find an alternate, yet seamless authentication method.

Have you tried it with x2go or freenx/NX?  Those aren't exactly
'minimal' client installs, but they are cross platform and worth the
trouble for remote work.  They should at least fix the problem of
taking several minutes to open a prompt window.

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  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com