On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, David Walser wrote: > Joe Baker wrote: > > My frustration with KDM is trying to get it to answer > > XDMCP requests. > > What's so frustrating?
The fact that you can't configure this in the KDE Control Center module, whereas on Redhat, there is a very visible menu option for configuring the display manager (gdm-config), which is trivial to use to enable XDMCP. > You can comment out Enable=false (under [XDMCP]) in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and restart KDM, > and I think you can also enable it with msec. Hmm, except that (at least in 9.1, I don't have cooker at home ...) in draksec, the descriptions are very bad, the following descriptions are very confusing: allow_x_connections allow_xserver_to_listen (no mention of XDMCP, remote logins, or anything descriptive) And even the manpage for mseclib doesn't shed more light on this. Maybe titi has fixed it already (last time I ran draksec on cooker there were better descriptions). > We have XDMCP disabled by default :o( but that also applies to GDM. Maybe in lower security levels (<=3?) XDMCP should be enable by default? Anyway, it would be nice if there was some tool to configure reserve servers in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, since lines like this: :1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 :2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 vt9 :3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :3 vt10 :4 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :4 vt11 :5 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :5 vt12 allow kdm to create new X servers on demand, and causes KDE to show the "Start New Session" menu entry, which gives us most of "fast user switching" for free ... Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
