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- From: buck@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Loren Buchanan)
- Subject: Re: XDM configuration question...
- Message-ID: <BzBB5H.n27@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
- Summary: related question
- Keywords: X Term, XDM
- Sender: buck@curie.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
- References: <BzB5HH.FL8@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:56:04 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <BzB5HH.FL8@andy.bgsu.edu> herber@andy.bgsu.edu (Steve Herber) writes:
- >I have been trying to configure the config files for XDM to allow
- >a X window login box to appear on my SGI console but to prevent
- >XDM from responding to network broadcast requests.
-
- [[[bunch of deleted stuff was here]]]
-
- >...so basicly, how do I turn off the ability for the SGI XDM server
- >to respond to these network broadcasts?
-
- A related question would be how to limit this ability to a given set of
- X-Terminals. I don't want to limit the use of XDM because it is more
- secure than some other so called security features. But I would like to
- limit XDM sessions to X-Terminals that are in my division (and also to
- ensure that some confused user elsewhere on base doesn't see a login prompt
- for any of my machines.)
-
- B Cing U
-
- Buck
-
- P.S. You could set up your X-Terminals to point to a particular machine
- for XDM service. That is what we do here, but as I found out yesterday
- when the machine that has my terminals configuration file on is down and
- I reboot my X-Terminal I get a login prompt for some random machine on the
- net.
-
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