OpenSolaris & Sun Secure Global desktop
Oddly enough, it appears that using Sun Secure Global desktop (SGD) from OpenSolaris doesn’t work from scratch. When my browsers try to connect to the server after authenticating, the browser never stop “Loading…” and times out after a while with an error message of style :”Failed to install”…
After some investigation, I found out that SGD is actually what’s left of a company called Tarantella, bought by Sun in 2005.
Now going to my home directory, there is a “hidden” directory called .tarantella
#cd ~/.tarantella/tcc/4.41.907/
#ls -l
total 3245
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nieuwenj staff 4368592 Aug 7 2008 ttatcc
Which seems to prove that the installation of the client started. Unfortunately,
# ldd ttatcc
libXm.so.4 => (file not found)
After going to a machine where SGD works, I see that I need SUNWmfrun, the Motif runtime software package. After googling, it appears that the package is part of Solaris 10 and even the early builds of OpenSolaris but it is no longer part of the OpenSolaris 2008.05 & 2008.11 distributions. Fortunately, I still have an iso of build79 of OpenSolaris ( a Solaris 10 iso or DVD would do )…
# lofiadm -a /downloads/laptop/iso/sol-nv-b79b-x86-dvd.iso
/dev/lofi/1
# mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /a
# cd /a/Solaris_11/Product
# pkgadd -d . -G SUNWmfrun
# pkgadd -d . -G SUNWxwrtl
The latter being a package that links the Motif libraries from /usr/dt to /usr/lib, where “ld” can find it.
There you go, retry to start SGD and you see a small (Motif) window popping up, asking something security-related. Then SGD finally starts…