Bug 104270 - tcp connection to X11 not allowed
Summary: tcp connection to X11 not allowed
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: gdm
Version: beta1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-11 21:40 UTC by Féliciano Matias
Modified: 2007-03-27 04:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-09-12 14:53:22 UTC
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Description Féliciano Matias 2003-09-11 21:40:18 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
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.
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