It is not necessary to boot into RL-5, he can boot into RL-3 and start
kdm/gdm manually.

As you stated, he can prevent the startup of local X servers if he
wishes. This has the benefit of eating up far less RAM on the host
system.

-JMS

|-----Original Message-----
|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gregor Maier
|Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:57 AM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: [expert] Where can I find XDMCP?
|
|
|Yes, you must either start kdm, xdm org gdm (kdm and xdm both 
|use the xdm config files). But you can prevent local X-logins 
|if you comment out the line in the xdm configuration where the 
|X-Server is started. (somewhere in /etx/X11/xdm). And the you 
|must boot to RL 5 in order to get xdm started. 
|
|Gregor
|
|
|On 18-Sep-2001 Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
|> Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
|> 
|>>If you bring up KDM, or GDM and your network card is properly 
|>>configured, XDMCP is enabled by default.
|>>
|>      Is it really necessary to bring up KDM first?  
|Actually, my Linux
|> box is configured to be a pure server.  Users (except me) aren't 
|> supposed to login locally (well, they can, but very very 
|rarely).  So, 
|> Linux starts up in pure text mode, and even the login screen 
|is also in 
|> text mode.
|> 
|>>
|>>
|>>You'll have to modify your security settings (i.e. /etc/hosts.allow,
|>>etc.) to permit other hosts to get a login screen... You could also 
|>>lower your machine/lan wide security settings in the control panels.
|>>
|>>That said, the chooser doesn't work in 8.0 afaik, so other linux
|>>machines will have to directly poll the XDMCP host to get a 
|login.    :(
|>>
|> 
|> 
|> 
|
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|E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Date: 18-Sep-2001
|Time: 12:54:18
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|
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