NAME¶

x2gobroker-testauth - Session Broker for X2Go (Authentication Test Utility)

SYNOPSIS¶

x2gobroker-testauth
[ options ]

DESCRIPTION¶

x2gobroker-testauth is an authentication test utility for X2Go Session Broker.

WARNING: please know that the credentials you use for testing the broker authentication will get revealed in your shell's history file (e.g. ~/.bash_history).

COMMON OPTIONS¶

x2gobroker-testauth displays some help on command line options:

-h, --help

Display a help with all available command line options and exit.

REQUIRED OPTIONS¶

At least the username is required. The password option can be omitted, you will be queried interactively, if no password is specified on the command line.

-u, --user, --username

Username part of the credentials you want to test.

-p, --password

Password part of the credentials (be sure you want to reveal those on the command line before doing it!!!)

MISC OPTIONS¶

x2gobroker-testauth also accepts the following miscellaneous options:

-d, --debug

Enable debugging code.

-C, --config FILENAME

Specify an alternative configuration file name, default is: /etc/x2go/x2gobroker.conf.

-b, --backend BACKEND

Specify another configured/enabled backend configuration to test authentication against, default is: the inifile backend.

FILES¶

/etc/x2go/x2gobroker.conf, /etc/x2go/broker/* (configuration files)

/etc/default/x2gobroker-daemon (environment for X2Go Session Broker when run as standalone daemon)

/var/log/x2gobroker/* (log files of X2Go Session Broker)

SEE ALSO¶

/usr/share/doc/x2gobroker

AUTHOR¶

This manual has been written for the X2Go project by Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>.