Duncan,
My tone was not derogatory. My apologies if it seemed that way.
Once in a while I feel the urge to lecture.
Anyway, I cant think of an offhand solution to your problem. The
best I can come up with is to change the file permissions on the 'startx'
script so that nobody but root can run X. Without an X-server running,
none of the x-client programs will work.
The caveat here is that 'root' can start up the X server, and then
others who telnet in can then set their DISPLAY variable to that of root's
screen. Then any X client program that they run will indeed be displayed
on root's screen. But this is such an unlikely situation...
Regards,
Kenneth
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On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Duncan L.Strang wrote:
> Well
>
> > Its quite obvious from your question that you havent understood
> > how X-windows functions.
>
> Spot on Kenneth... This IS the newbie list isn't it?
>
> >
> > Yes, X-windows provides graphics. But this way of viewing it
> > doesnt really help (even though it is perfectly correct). A better way of
> > viewing it would be to think of it as a networking protocol that allows
> > the transfer of graphics primitives.
>
> hmm, well my question was actually more concerned with how I stop
> users running startx when they are logged into the linux box, I don't
> want to provide a graphical interface to an account via Win PC
> telnet, I just want to allow telnet access for Pine, g++ etc.
>
> Do you know how to configure telnet ?
> Or at least redirect the output from 'the transfer of graphics
> primitives' away from the consol screen.
> e.g -> /dev/null for example.
>
> What I don't want is a window to an account opening on the Linux box.
>
> Cheers
> Duncan.
>
>
