Re: customize ligthdm manager
On 2015-03-20, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:18:23PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
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>> I want to enter from a local machine using=C2=A0 lightdm manager,=C2=
>=A0 to a remote
>> server using XDMCP.
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>> I do it with a thin client, I mean on a thin client I have the list of=
> all
>> servers running XDMCP.
>> I=C2=A0 want to do the same,=C2=A0 from an old PC that I want to=C2=A0=
> use as a simple
>> terminal.
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>> unfortunatly, in the login window I have only local accounts on my loc=
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>> machine,
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>> is it=C2=A0 possible to customize the login window of lightdm to allow=
> access
>> to a remote server running XDMCP?
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> The first result on a web search for "lightdm xdmcp" (no quotes)
> suggests to add
>
> [XDMCPServer]
> enabled=3Dtrue
>
> to your /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, then restart lightdm. You can also
> add and XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 key by adding "key=3DXXXXXX" (where XXXXXX is
> either a hex value 0xnnnnnnnnnnnnnn or a word), and specify a port using
> "port=3DXX" (default 177).
Isn't that for allowing access to the local machine via XDMCP, rather
than the other way round?
--
Liam
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