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On 22/01/14 00:04, Simon Waters wrote: > On 21/01/14 12:01, Philip Hudson wrote: >> Given admin privileges, how can a remote user, connected into a >> debianoid (actually Mint Debian Edition) host with an ssh shell session, >> dismiss the locally displayed *dm greeter and start their own desktop >> session, effectively as if they had logged in locally using the greeter? > > Is xdmcp the missing bit. > > This is how the X terminals use to do it in 1993ish, and I believe gdm3 > still supports it. > > I use to use it a lot with HP-UX 9 or 10 era workstations, you could > even load balance resources over it and the like, but I've touched it > like once in the subsequent 18 years and any knowledge has long ago leaked. > > I dare say it can be tunnelled over SSH if you like, might be easier to > make it work locally first. > Yeah, I was just going to say that. Bad news as you're using Mint, as apparently XDMCP is intentionally removed from MDM in 16. Of course, if you're on 15 or don't mind changing your greeter to GDM or something, you should be all set. You need a stanza like [xdmcp] Enable=true In the *.conf file for whichever greeter you decide to use. Regards http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=157&t=137103 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq