Re: a FAQ? How dos one make gdm do XDMCP?

[David Forrest <drf5n mug sys virginia edu>]

On 13 Apr 2000, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> >>>>> "David" == David Forrest <drf5n mug sys virginia edu> writes:
> 
> David> I tried XDMCP=1 after I found that documentation, but the
> David> machine didn't show up on the chooser windows, I added the
> David> /etc/hosts.allow line, and it still didn't work...  Isn't 'TCP
> David> Wrappers' tcpd?  meaning that I need to set it up in
> David> /etc/inetd.conf?  Or does gdm listen itself as a daemon?  
> 
> GDM is a standalone daemon which uses the tcp wrappers library for
> access control.

So this means that it is its own daemon, and it uses the entries in
hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but not inetd.conf?   So the
output from '/usr/sbin/tcpd -a -v' which warns as shows below is
acceptable?

################################################################
[root burns drf5n]# /usr/sbin/tcpdchk -a -v
Using network configuration file: /etc/inetd.conf

>>> Rule /etc/hosts.allow line 7:
daemons:  gdm
warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: gdm: no such process name in
/etc/inetd.conf
clients:  .virginia.edu
warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: implicit "allow" at end of rule
access:   granted

>>> Rule /etc/hosts.allow line 8:
daemons:  gdm
clients:  .sys.virginia.edu
warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 8: implicit "allow" at end of rule
access:   granted
[root burns drf5n]# 
########################################################################


> 
> Try doing an X -query <gdmhost> from another machine.

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 Dave Forrest                                dforrest virginia edu
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