Bug 104270

Summary:	tcp connection to X11 not allowed
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta	Reporter:	Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Féliciano Matias 2003-09-11 21:40:18 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703

Description of problem:
Tcp connection is not allowed to X11.
My gdm setting is the default setting. That is "DisallowTCP=true" is commented
in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

This is de command line use by gdm to launch X11 :
"/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7"

Flag "-nolisten" disallow tcp connection.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.4.4.0-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- log in into X11
- in a xterm do :
$ xhost 127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 being added to access control list
$ DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 eog
 
(eog:25945): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Comment 1 Féliciano Matias 2003-09-12 14:53:22 UTC

It's new "feature" in gdm (2.4.4) and it is actived in the default configuration.
gdmsetup have an option to disable this.
Sorry.