Re: [MLUG] Xauth help - fedora

[Mark Haidekker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks to all who replied, Stephen, Ryan, Rick. I am running out of time, so I 
need to get back to this later.

Based on what I have seen it seems advisable to use ssh anyway and leave port 
6000 closed.

Ryan, the gdmconfig program you suggested is really interesting. I didn't know 
that one. Even more interesting is that under the security tab "Always 
disallow TCP connections" is _unchecked_ ?!?

Still unsolved, but thanks again for your suggestions.

Mark



On Fri November 11 2005 11:13, Woodsmall, Ryan (IATS) wrote:
> GDM might actually be using the values from your XDM setup (normally stored
> in /etc/X11/xdm or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm); it used to do this anyway, not
> sure about newer versions.
>
> You might also use the 'gdmconfig' program if you haven't already to see if
> there's anything there that might help you.
>
>   ryan woodsmall
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> ***Workaround, but no solution ***
>
> On Fri November 11 2005 08:52, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > This wouldn't work, I think, because -listen_tcp is an option for
> > startx, not for X.
> >
> > If you are using gdm, my guess is that the startx script never even gets
> > used.
>
> Possible. The forest option in ps shows /usr/X11R6/bin/X to be called from
> gdm-binary, which is in turn called from prefdm.
>
> It seems intuitive that gdm-binary uses gdm.conf. There is nothing of
> relevance in prefdm.
>
> > I would try grepping all the dot files in your home directory for
> > nolisten.
>
> Nah. This is on the system level, not user level. Tried it anyway, no luck.
>
> > Then I would try grepping the entire file system - it might take a long
> > time, but probably less time then pulling out your hair.
>
> Nothing useful. Could it be "hardwired" in the gdm-binary?
>
> Workaround: I can open a remote terminal with ssh -Y <remote host> xterm
> However, this does not work for all systems. For example, there is an IRIX
> box I'd like to connect to where it still complains it couldn't open
> 128.206.....:0.0 display.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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