XDM Login Broken

[Kurt Wall]

Joel at hammershome.com on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:27:03PM -0500

Scribbling feverishly on April 06, Joel Hammer managed to emit:
> I HAD a very similar problem. One linux box (The X server which runs X
> -direct client or X :2 -indirect chooserbox) could only connect to one of
> three willing clients running kdm.  I got an error message like yours.(X:
> client 2 rejected from 192.168.0.6) I messed around with the Xaccess file
> in /etc/X11/kdm directory. I guess yours will be in the xdm directory. I
> didn't realize I had fixed anything until I just tried it tonight and
> now all is well. 
> 
> Here is my Xaccess file on my client machines (The ones who will be using
> the X server on the calling machine.
> 
> *					#any host can get a login window
> 
> *		CHOOSER BROADCAST	#any indirect host can get a chooser

Okay, I did this and was able to log in using XDM, *but*:
1. My window manager (XFCE) didn't work properly - no toolbar at the
   bottom and the context menus, which were available, did not work.
2. I don't like allowing access to "any host" this way, for obvious
   reasons, firewall notwithstanding.
3. I shouldn't have to change this to log in using XDM. It worked
   before the upgrade, so it should work after the upgrade without
   this change.

Kurt
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