RE: Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and XDMCP

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

> Open the file and add the hosts you'd like to give access (the 
> file has some straightforward comments on that topic) and restart 
> xdm/kdm. The xdm manpage has a more elaborate description of it, too.

Only one problem with that: /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess allows access for *

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tim Koenig
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:21 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and XDMCP
> 
> 
> [no XDM login screen on a Linux box]
> >What gives?
> 
> Mandrake uses KDE's kdm by default, right? Then the file is named 
> (as it is with xdm[1]) 'Xaccess'. RedHat has it in 
> '/etc/X11/xdm', since Mandrake was at one time a RedHat 
> derivative, you could look there first.
> 
> Open the file and add the hosts you'd like to give access (the 
> file has some straightforward comments on that topic) and restart 
> xdm/kdm. The xdm manpage has a more elaborate description of it, too.
> 
> >Has anyone else had similar problems with 8.1?
> 
> No, since I don't use it. But personally, I don't consider it a 
> good idea to give anyone in the world a X login-screen in a 
> default installation. Frankly, I did neither know nor believe 
> that anyone would ship a distribution with that behaviour.
> 
>  - Tim
> 
> [1] kdm is based on xdm code, but gdm or wdm aren't
> 
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