Bug 55826

Summary:	Cannot use my RH box as an Xterminal anymore with KDM 3.0.0
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <ted>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	bero
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-07 10:08:26 UTC

Description of Problem:

I cannot use My RedHat 7.2 box as an Xterminal (It worked with 7.1)


How Reproducible:

Just modify the files as mentionned below (My machine is called Lorient):

[ted@lorient /etc]$ diff inittab inittab.org
57,58c57
< x1:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
< x2:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect lorient
---
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon


[ted@lorient xdm]$ diff Xaccess Xaccess.org 
40c40
< *					#any host can get a login window
---
> # *					#any host can get a login window
58c58
< #*		CHOOSER BROADCAST	#any indirect host can get a chooser
---
> *		CHOOSER BROADCAST	#any indirect host can get a chooser
66c66
< %hostlist	lorient brest toulon plnpc
---
> #%hostlist	host-a host-b
68c68
< *		CHOOSER %hostlist	#
---
> #*		CHOOSER %hostlist	#




[ted@lorient xdm]$ diff xdm-config xdm-config.org 
28c28
< ! DisplayManager.requestPort:	0
---
> DisplayManager.requestPort:	0


[ted@lorient xdm]$ diff Xservers Xservers.org 
13c13
< #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X 
---
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X

I do not use Gdm but Kdm:
[ted@lorient sysconfig]$ more desktop 
DESKTOP="KDE



Actual Results:

Grey screen. I do not get the XDMCP chooser window.

Expected Results:

A grey screen WITH the XDMCP chooser window, where I can choose among 4
machines: Brest, Lorient, Toulon and Plnpc


Additional Information:
	
I suspect a security problem but I don't know what has been changed between
7.1 and 7.2 in this respect.

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-11-22 10:00:12 UTC

I replaced /ec/X11/prefdm by /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm in inittab and it worked
From that I discovered that KDE 2.2 introduced a new kdmrc file
(/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc), so now I am sure it has something to do with KDM
I tried to modify the kdmrc file to obtain what I wanted but without success.

I don't know what to do now.


Daniel

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-05-21 06:18:39 UTC

I don't consider this to be a bug, but rather a misconfiguration issue.
xdm/kdm/gdm all work fine for me in my test environment.  If you need
help configuring xdm/kdm/gdm and XDMCP, etc. please subscribe to the
xpert mailing list, or one of the Red Hat mailing lists.

There is also an XDMCP-HOWTO which you might find helpful.

Hope this helps.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2002-05-21 07:06:23 UTC

Hi!

I had finally succeeded in fixing this with RedHat 7.2 and KDE 2.2.2
Since then, I replaced KDE 2.2.2 by KDE 3.0.0 (a new kderc file). I have also
installed RedHat 7.3 on an other machine and with the Xaccess, inittab... files
CORRECTLY configured for an XDMCP request (tested succesfully with KDE 2.2.2), I
end up, again, with a grey screen using KDM.

I modified kdmrc according to this. It is equivalent to what I did for KDE 2.2.2
(and it worked then....). Do you know what has been changed from KDE 2.2.2 to
KDE 3.0.0? Could you please help me to find the right flag to get XDMCP working
again?  Thanks in advance

bash-2.05a# pwd
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
bash-2.05a# diff kdmrc kdmrc.org
64c64
< DaemonMode=false
---
> #DaemonMode=false
96c96
< #Enable=false
---
> Enable=false
98c98
< Port=177
---
> #Port=177
bash-2.05a#

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2002-05-21 07:31:27 UTC

Sorry, but bugzilla is not a technical support forum, it is a bug tracking
database.  If you require assistance configuring XDMCP, KDE, KDM, or any
other issues, please use the mailing lists previously mentioned for
technical support.

Comment 5 Need Real Name 2002-05-21 07:54:54 UTC

Hello,

I am very much aware of the fact that bugzilla is not a technical forum but
considering that few months ago there was a bug in the redhat KDE RPMS (for
2.1.x if I recall correctly) that was disabling the XDMCP request whatever the
configuration was and considering that the changes in the configuration files I
did for KDE 3.0.0 (RH73) are EXACTLY the same than the ones I did for KDE 2.2.2,
I don't really know if the problem is : configuration or bug....


Daniel

PS: If you want, I can open a bug report for RH7.3 and kdebase-3.0.0-12 (kdmrc
is in this package)