> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Koenig > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > > Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. > http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp
