On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > XDMCP is kind of neat, but in reality it's not something you should > enable on a regular basis. It has zero security. Maybe Use freenx or > even ssh X11 forwarding. > > Looks like the so-called bug with gdm is really the lack of a graphical > configurator for this new arguably half-baked edition of gdm. The bug > report you mentioned gave the exact config needed to enable XDMCP. Did > that not work for you? I agree that gdm has major issues in Fedora as > they transition to the latest branch of gdm. Probably wasn't a wise > move to use it just yet. The bug about not being able to disable the > sound effects in gdm (what were they thinking!) is my most serious > grievance with Fedora 11. > We are only running this on an internal network which we basically just trust. We have hundreds of machines with little to no security, so this isn't going to be the big hole. I was trying to fix the "daemon/gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.c g_array_free()" bug mentioned in the bug report, which is why I was trying to get the source. This looked like a reasonable place to start as this bug is fixed in the 2.28 branch so I'm reasonable certain it is a real bug. Anyway, the real reason for switching to SUSE is the whole 32bit app issue. >From what I've read, it's a lot of work to get them running on Fedora 11. It was a noop on SUSE. They just worked right out of the box. dave
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