Cut down xfree server for XDMCP only

Steinar Bang sb@dod.no
Mon Jun 24 09:09:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> Tim Thomson <tim.thomson@paradise.net.nz>:

> On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 02:30, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:

>> Strangely enough, I was planning to start work on project again
>> this month, and perhaps even this weekend, with my first step being
>> to do the script to configure XDMCP access on a 'standard' linux
>> distribution.

> Hehe, finding a "standard" linux distrib could be fun :)

"Typical" might be a better term.  I know from experience that both
RedHat 7.2, and debian Woody/Testing, comes with XDMCP against remote
machines turned off.

> Do you mean a script to enable an xdm type server for accepting
> remote connections? This would be a great idea!

Yup. :-)

> Kind of tricky though, with xdm, kdm, and gdm all doing this, but
> using different locations, and ach distribution probably puts the
> config files in different locations as well :)

Yup. :-/




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