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Xdm serving network from my machine!



Greetings,

  I run Debian "unstable" connected to a dorm network at my school.  
Recently, people have started experimenting with Win95-based X servers, 
which apparantly broadcast messages across the network looking for 
XDMCP servers willing to use their display.  I found about this by 
reading a school-based newsgroup where someone mentioned getting a XDM 
login screen from my machine.

  At the very least, I consider this a security problem.  I don't want 
to have to run x via startx, but I -really- don't want to offer login 
screens to everybody on the local net.  If that is how xdm is 
configured by default, I'll definately file a bug on it.

  How can I configure xdm so that it will -only- serve local servers?

Later,
  Buddha

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     Buddha Buck                      bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu
"Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our
liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech
the First Amendment protects."  -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice


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