Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:00:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: mattb <mattb@houston.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDE like login Message-ID: <20020818120001.GD2079@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3D5F0B99.5060906@houston.rr.com> References: <063501c2465d$9604b930$2afececd@TCOOPER> <3D5F0B99.5060906@houston.rr.com>
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 09:51:05PM -0500, mattb wrote:
> I have multiple solaris, hp-ux, openvms and bsd boxens and I was
> wondering if there was a CDE like login which would allow me to connect
> to my other machines X servers? In solaris and HP-UX I can select which
> server I wish to connect to simply by choosing one from a drop down
> menu. Thanks.
xdm(1) supports XDMCP logins to remote machines, but that
functionality is turned off in the default install. Assuming you have
xdm(1) configured on your BSD boxes so you can get a local X session,
you need to modify some configuration files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm:
i) Xservers -- Take out any '-nolisten tcp' flags in this file ---
you're going to be making a great deal of use of ports
6000--6063. This may or may not be a good thing, depending on
your paranoia level, as that's a lot of snoopable, unencrypted
traffic.
ii) Xaccess -- this controls both which hosts are allowed to
remotely log into this machine, and which machines will be
listed as choices to log into. Again, a sufficiently paranoid
sysadmin will be getting twitchy here: it's very convenient to
make the chooser broadcast for suitable machines on the
network, but you'ld better be sure that doesn't include any
undesireables. Given that you're OK with that, simply
uncomment the two lines like so:
* #any host can get a login window
* CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser
iii) xdm-config -- comment out the last line to make xdm(1) listen
for XDMCP or Chooser requests on UDP port 177:
!DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
iv) Xresources -- optionally, customize the look of the Chooser
window, and other parts of the xdm login system.
Do a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart the X server, and away you go.
Cheers,
Matthew
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