Description of problem: That's not really a bug but degraded functionality, or at least missing documentation. For some test boxes I usually set up a remote login like this: Install xinetd and vncserver chkconfig --del vncserver Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf [daemon] RemoteGreeter=/usr/libexec/gdmgreeter [security] AllowRemoteRoot=true [xdmcp] Enable=true Add to /etc/services vnclogin1 5901/tcp Create /etc/xinetd.d/vnclogin1 with following content service vnclogin1 { disable = no socket_type = stream protocol = tcp group = tty wait = no user = nobody server = /usr/bin/Xvnc server_args = -inetd -query localhost -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 -once -securitytypes=none -desktop Domain-0 } Finally, restart GDM, start xinetd, and probably poke a hole into the firewall. This used to work with older Fedora releases and RHEL. Now that the GDM settings are supposed to be managed through GConf, and gdmsetup is gone without replacement I'm unable to find the right keys setup GDM accordingly.
Fwiw, what you describe is essentially what vnc-ltsp-config does, but that doesn't address how each individual desktop/login manager handles enabling XDMCP.
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Isn't this a dupe of #446224 in essence - i.e. simply XDMCP in GDM being broken?
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