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

From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp sunsite auc dk>
To: dforrest virginia edu
Cc: gdm sunsite auc dk
Subject: Re: a FAQ? How dos one make gdm do XDMCP?
Date: 16 Apr 2000 14:49:23 +0200

>> GDM is a standalone daemon which uses the tcp wrappers library for
>> access control.

David> So this means that it is its own daemon, and it uses the
David> entries in hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but not inetd.conf?  

Yep. GDM uses the tcp wrappers *library*, not the tcpd daemon.


David> So the output from '/usr/sbin/tcpd -a -v' which warns as shows
David> below is acceptable?

Looks alright, yes.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
http://mkp.net/		XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME, SunSITE Denmark

References:
- Re: a FAQ? How dos one make gdm do XDMCP?
  - From: David Forrest

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