On Thu, 30 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The first user logs in through xdm, but the second user is in a different
> room (or not even the same building) but will telnet to the machine and
> start the build (which needs access to the X server).
In that case the first user is a red herring - it doesn't matter whether
they exist or not.
The second user needs to allow the build machine to connect to
the
screen on his desk. He can do this with
xhost +buildmachine
in his .xinitrc, but he may need to set the environment variable
DISPLAY (with
setenv DISPLAY desktopmachine:0
pr
export DISPLAY=desktopmachine:0
depending upon shell) every time he logs in.
I haven't used telnet for a long time (I don't trust my net)
last time I looked this wasn't automatic.
> Is there a good reason why an `xhost +localhost` in the first user's
> .xinitrc wouldn't work?
No, you want to allow the other machine to access to the screen
on your desk.
--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
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