[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat, xdm, and cooser

[Greg Edwards]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how they would do that, because you need to give permission 
> to the "other box" to display on your local box.
> 
> The "normal" way to do this is to:
> 1. login to your local box
> 2. in an xterm, run "xhost +other_host"
> 3. ssh/telnet/rsh/whatever (in order of preference) to the other host
> 4. set your $DISPLAY env.var. to your local host
> 5. run your client app(s)
> 
> There are some changes to the above if you have different user names on 
> the 2 machines and so forth, but that's basically it.
> 
> HTH,
> Kevin

Actually xhost is not the normal way.  It's the way that techy types 
know and also the very-very insecure way.  If most IT upper management 
types knew their engineers were using xhost (and the ramifications) 
they'd flip.

What Jack is looking for is a chooser.  xdm, kdm, and gdm all have some 
chooser abilities and from what I understand have improved allot over 
the last 2 years or so.  The one that really got it right was CDE but 
that's ancient history now.

I don't know where to find any docs on the tools but if you look in 
/etc/X11/xdm you should find something (hint, chooser) to start with.

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