Re: Prepackaged indirected X terminal

[Karl Hammar <karl@kalle.csb.ki.se>]

Have you tried one of

  $ X -query otherhost
  $ X -broadcast
  $ X -indirect otherhost

or

  $ man Xserver | sed -n -e '288,340p'
  XDMCP OPTIONS
	 X servers that support XDMCP have the  following  options.
	 See  the  X Display Manager Control Protocol specification
	 for more information.

	 -query host-name
		 Enable XDMCP and send Query packets to the  speci­
		 fied host.

	 -broadcast
		 Enable  XDMCP and broadcast BroadcastQuery packets
		 to the network.  The first responding display man­
		 ager will be chosen for the session.

	 -indirect host-name
		 Enable XDMCP and send IndirectQuery packets to the
		 specified host.

	 -port port-num
		 Use an alternate port number  for  XDMCP  packets.
		 Must be specified before any -query, -broadcast or
		 -indirect options.

	 -class display-class
		 XDMCP has an additional display qualifier used  in
		 resource   lookup  for  display-specific  options.
		 This option sets that  value,  by  default  it  is
		 "MIT-Unspecified" (not a very useful value).

	 -cookie xdm-auth-bits
		 When  testing  XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1, a private key
		 is shared between  the  server  and  the  manager.
		 This  option  sets  the value of that private data
		 (not that it is very private, being on the command
		 line!).





  X Version 11               Release 6.3                          5





  XSERVER(1)                                             XSERVER(1)


	 -displayID display-id
		 Yet  another XDMCP specific value, this one allows
		 the display manager to identify  each  display  so
		 that it can locate the shared key.
  $

Regards,
/Karl

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From: Alexander Perry <arp11@pacbell.net>
Subject: Prepackaged indirected X terminal
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 13:30:46 -0800

> I know how to have xdm use the indirect and chooser features
> to work with external X terminals and determine where they go.
> Works great, but it leaves me with a simple question ...
> 
> Is there a clean way to specify that the locally managed 
> display should be indirected (like a terminal would be)
> for the option of attaching it elsewhere instead of locally ?
> I can do it by disabling it in xdm and putting a line in the
> inittab, but the authentication stuff is a pain and I'm
> assuming there must be a better way of setting it all up.
> 
> Separately to that, the X traffic of a remoted display
> is not normally encrypted.  Sometimes that is important.
> Is there a clean way to have that local X display make its
> connection to the remote machine using (for example) ssh -X ?
> I know how to do it manually, with some extra scripting,
> but I was hoping that there was something packaged for this.
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
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