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RE: Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and XDMCP
- To: <grey_hat at lycos dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Linux-Mandrake 8.1 and XDMCP
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:44:35 -0400
> 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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