From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 5 02:28:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE87F16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 02:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fuse1.fusemail.net (smtp.fusemail.net [69.31.1.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4787A43D49 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 02:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zhangweiwu@realss.com) Received: from fusemail.com by fuse1.fusemail.net with asmtp (FuseMail extSMTP) id 1BWXSx-0005FJ-4l; Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:27:51 -0500 Message-ID: <40C191C8.70707@realss.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:26:32 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040502 X-Accept-Language: zh-cn, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob References: <40C13B64.7030100@realss.com> <40C18B5F.9000300@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <40C18B5F.9000300@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to use the xdm host chooser? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 09:28:01 -0000 Rob wrote: > Zhang Weiwu wrote: > >> Hello. Now I have my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess contain (only) this: >> * CHOOSER BROADCAST >> >> according to xdm(1) this will enable XDMCP host chooser upon user >> login. Now I reboot, xdm login box pops up, everything like it was >> before. > > > I think it means any host can connect and asks in a broadcast. > If, on your network, a host does > X -broadcast > your machine will/may appear in the that machine's chooser list. I don't really get you, I'm a xdm newbie;) I am not sure of the inner machenism but in my local network (192.168.0.0/24) everyone in the office use gdm and turned on XDMCP, so you pick up a box with gdm login screen, select 'run host chooser' from 'system' menu, you will see all the computers in the office listed there and I can pick up one to login. I believe this means they are all broadcasting. > > I don't know if it also allows an indirect request: > X -indirect > > Oh, and take also a note of this in xdm-config file: > > ! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests > ! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm > DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 What does this mean? I am running a slow box I don't need myself to be listed in the host chooser of other boxes, but I need to be able to login to other boxes.