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PolicyKit

A brief guide to PolicyKit

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Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn’t as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe.

It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up

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X11rdp-o-Matic progress – updated 2012-06-19

PolKitTest002

Version 2 is almost complete. It's taking me longer than I anticipated, because there's some final stuff I need to figure out with regards to PolicyKit, so that's holding me back. It's now 1:47am as I type this, and I'm going to sleep on the problem.

PolicyKit is basically what allows local users to do

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Working on new version of X11rdp-o-matic/RDPsesconfig

Just to let you know I'm busy working on a new version of the utilities.

Stay tuned. ;)

Related posts: The Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic and RDPsesconfig : v1.1 released, V2 now available

Active Directory

xrdp authentication with Active Directory

A couple of readers asked how they could get xrdp to authenticate with Active Directory.

Here's how…  ;)

Prerequisites I assume your xrdp server already has either the Likewise/Likewise-Open or as it's now known by,  PowerBroker Identity Services I assume that your xrdp server

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Linux Tips & Tricks

The Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic and RDPsesconfig : v1.1 released, V2 now available

 

Note : Version 1.x, 2.x are now deprecated in favour of v3.0 which contains fixes and additional changes, plus creates Debian packages. v3 is out now and is a vast improvment.

 

 

 

Article first published on May 23, 2012 @ 8:17

UPDATE : June 17, 2012

Changelog :

Added important note about Policykit – see

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audio

Get audio with your xrdp/x11rdp connections, LAN or Remote! Updated! Windows Clients!

Okay so I did a bit of research, and found a method of forwarding audio from your remote RDP Linux desktops.

The methods work for RDP connections on your local LAN, and also for connections to remote systems via ssh tunnels.

Here's how…

2012-04-19 Article Updated

Changelog:

Added a section for how

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Linux Tips & Tricks

ssh – Secure your systems with ssh on Linux and puTTY on Windows – Part 1

This will be a multi-part series on SSH

This is Part 1

Say you have a workstation or server, safely sitting behind a firewall, but you need access, for example, to the shiny RDP service you installed not so long ago, and/or other services on that system.

You could easily forward the RDP

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Linux Tips & Tricks

QuickTips : Stop apt downloading Translations Indexes

I’ve noticed that recently, Debian-based distributions seem to be attempting to download a bazillion Translations Indexes from their repositories. Most of the these attempts seem to be either ignored, or fail, and sometimes it even seems to slow down the update download itself, presumably because it takes time for the repository server to time out

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Site News

Move complete! Updated…

If you’re seeing this post, then all is well, DNS has propagated, and you’re now accessing the blog via the new VPS!

Update : I seem to be having some trouble with comment plugins, so, for now I have deactivated them. Please let me know if you spot any other trouble with the site.

*sigh*

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Life hacking

Moving home…

Scarygliders will be moving home soon!

You probably won't notice anyway, but, I'll be relocating this site to be hosted elsewhere.

In the meantime, whilst I'm busy configuring the new server, the site will operate as normal, and hopefully the transition will be smooth – famous last words ;)

I'll let you know when this

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