suse Linux 5.2
I sit here on my Win95 PC and run the built in telnet client and
telnet into my user account on the Linux box in the corner of the
room.(TCP/IP in case there's any other way?)
There is no indication that anything is happening at the other end
apart from a short period of disk access. The console(the screen)
display remains set at the login prompt, in fact if the screen is
blank the login process doesn't even wake it up.
However.
When I get the Linux prompt in the telnet window I can apparently
do anything I like as a user INCLUDING running XWindows (is it right
to call fvwm XWindows???).
Anyway, whatever happens when I type startx from the command line-
when I am logged in to the linux box and sitting at the terminal-
also happens when I type startx from the telnet delivered prompt
(seems reasonable to me) BUT, the remote computer starts fvwm and
displays to the console screen giving a 'window' to my account !!.
Obviously this is a bad(feable) idea.
Perhaps you shouldn't run startx from a telnet prompt, but that never
stops anyone from doing it!
I guess this would be controlled from some (telnet) configuration
file somewhere. However I'm having trouble finding out about this as
the documentation is a bit technical for me. (e.g slave and master
sides of a virtual terminal) %%%-{
The output of man telnetd in the Win95 telnet window is all over the
place.
If I disconnect the telnet session the wm closes down and you're
back at the plain old login prompt.
The thing is the login prompt is exactly the same as it was before
starting fvwm.
The screen doesn't even appear to have been refreshed !!!!
?
Is there a configuration file somewhere that I can play with ??
For example, how would I set some of the available 'features'
(that's probably not the right word but it's as near as I can get).
Thanks.
Duncan
