[gdm-list] Re: redirecting connection from remote host

[Ashish Khurange <ashishk it iitb ac in>]

Hello,

Otherwise if we can close the X connection between thin client and 
server after the user logout, this will also do. i.e. after logout the 
control should be returned to thin client machine. How I can do this? 
Please reply ASAP.

Regards,
- Ashish G. K.
IIT Bombay India.

Ashish Khurange wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm developing a High availability cluster for thin clients. For this 
> I have following requirements.
>
> 1. There is a master server, which is used by thin clients to get the 
> kernel code and boot. It is also the load balancer in the system.
> 2. All the thin clients after booting sends a xdmcp direct query to 
> load balancer.
> 3. Load balancer will provide login screen to thin clients, get thin 
> clients authenticated.
>
> Up to this part everything is OK.
>
> 4. After the authentication, the load balancer has to take scheduling 
> decision depending on user authenticated, load on various servers.
> 5. The load balancer will select an optimal server to serve this user.
> 6. Now the connection of thin client with load balancer should be 
> broken and the thin client should establish new connection with the 
> selected server.
> 7. The selected server should provide auto-login to the user, it 
> should not ask for login again. That is this redirection should be 
> transparent.
>
> I don't have much information about GDM & XDMCP. So, is it possible to 
> do this? If yes, which part of code of GDM I need to dig? Also please 
> tell me how to get started to understand the code of GDM.
>
> Thank you all in advance.
>
> - Ashish G. K.
>  IIT Bombay, India.