Re: [ rdesktop-Bugs-2817779 ] Can't connect to WinServ 2008 SP2: "internal license error"

Hi Henrik,

that actually seems to be true if you think of starting rdesktop as a user 
that has write access to /usr/share/rdesktop/..., but I can warrant that 
this is never going to happen with our IT administrators. Moreover, the 
licences are updated from time to time during the authentication process. 
So users will definitely need write access.
Whether RDS per User CALs will be delivered/stored or not, I cannot tell 
since we only have RDS per Device CALs. Anyway, what is the problem about 
storing the CALs in the user's home? The previous implementation also 
stored the CALs in the user's home. That is why I only proposed to amend 
the directory structure. I simply wanted to make as few changes as 
possible.

Perhaps, a possible solution could be to share licences in some directory 
like /var/rdesktop/licences/ with read/write/set-gid permission for 
everyone and if the sticky bit is set as well because the subtree /var/ is
always local. In some affiliations the subtree /usr/ is shared per NFS 
among several servers for simple maintainance reasons.
In addition, I would like to have tested whether a user is granted access 
by presenting a CAL that another user has received before, before I would 
propose such a "directory move". Unfortunately, I cannot check this until 
next week.

Best regards,


Thomas

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