Bug#263449: kdm: problem still persists
tags 263449 upstream pending
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On August 14, 2005 01:57, Joel Barker wrote:
> Just installed Agnula/DeMuDi (a Sarge derivative) on my desktop, and set
> up gdm with XDMCP enabled. I was able to make remote logins from my
> laptop (then running Mandrake 9.2/10.0 hybrid with kdm 3.2-79mdk). So far
> so good. Then I wiped my laptop and installed Debian Stable. With gdm, I
> can remote-login no problem. But when I switched to kdm (on the
> laptop/client, desktop still uses gdm) then remote login no longer works.
> Paying attention to the above comments I removed the "-nolisten tcp" from
> /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers and it all works again!
>
> If it helps I could supply more info on this. This bug should definately
> have been *at least* documented before making it into Debian Stable; I
> spent several hours of googling to find a solution, purging and
> reinstalling packages, etc. After narrowing down the problem to kdm
> (seeing that gdm worked fine) I decided to check this bug page.
For the record, KDE 3.4 appears to fix this without reducing the default
level of security.
Cheers,
Christopher Martin
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