From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 31 17:28:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5865E37B400 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6911643E86 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from t.vanderhoek@utoronto.ca) Received: from localhost.nowhere ([64.231.122.220]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020901002906.YPQ14780.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost.nowhere>; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:29:06 -0400 Received: from localhost.nowhere (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.nowhere (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g810SvRT005670; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:28:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim@localhost.nowhere) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g810Svva005669; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:28:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:28:56 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: John Stalker Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: wdm in a networked environment considered harmful Message-ID: <20020901002856.GA81298@turquoise> References: <200208311722.g7VHM6x06757@math.Princeton.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208311722.g7VHM6x06757@math.Princeton.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:22:06PM -0400, John Stalker wrote: > Hi, > wdm works fine on a single machine, but it has one great drawback > when managing a remote display. If the user selects "Halt" or "Reboot" > it will halt or reboot the machine running wdm, not the machine running > the Xserver. I found that telnet has the same bug. If I telnet into a remote machine and type 'reboot' it reboots the remote machine instead of my local machine. Which is actually exactly what I would expect, come to think of it! :) -- If I could think of a two-line witty aphorism for you to remember me by, this would definitely be it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message