if xdm is started with the -auth parameter then you can use xhost etc to
allow denay access according to ip address check the man pages for
xhost...
Cheerio
Robin
Urmil Parikh wrote:
> requires). Since login was through telnet, X-Display manager doesn't
> come to picture in this case.
>
> Regards
> Urmil Parikh
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello
> > > My linux box is visible on a nearby Sun machine under
> > remote login . I would
> > > like to disallow remote X login . Can anybody tell what
> > I should do.
> >
> > Depends on what X-Display manager you are running on your
> > box. The most
> > popular are xdm, kdm and gdm. If you are running xdm/kdm the default
> > access information is in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess. Read the
> > comments in that file and modify accordingly.
> >
> > If you are running gdm, the configuration is in
> > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.
> > You might have to disable remote-access.
> >
> > May I suggest that 'man' and /usr/doc will really help in
> > resolving your
> > problems ;-)
> >
> > -- KD
>
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