ECE’s Linux servers are Dell PowerEdge servers. We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as OS, NIS domain to manage user identity, group and netgroup, SSSD and Kerberos (pam_krb5 module on RHEL7 and older) for authentication against ESERVICES AD, and X2go-Xfce for “remote desktop”. Once an account is created, the user can login using the same UVA password for netbadge or eservices. This way users do not need to remember another set of login & passwords for ECE domain servers. A user will have the same home directory regardless of which server (s)he logs into.
We have about 40 unix Unix groups on the NIS domain to manage the access to technology PDK tool kits. For some groups, users will need to get approval from their professors and sign non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before granted group memberships.
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Once nice feature x2go has is that x2go sessions are persistent across connections if you kill the session without purposely logoutlogging out. So when you reconnect, your terminal windows, applications, browser windows, etc., will still be where you left them, even your foreground running jobs are not interrupted.
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