From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 21:00:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A3616A412 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:00:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062CD13C448 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:00:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from 192.168.11.29 (arwen.nagual.nl [192.168.11.29]) by nagual.nl with esmtp; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:50:24 +0100 id 00039809.458D9690.00001125 From: dick hoogendijk To: FreeBSD Users Questions Message-Id: <1166907080.5478.10.camel@arwen> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6.308 Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:51:21 +0100 Subject: remote graphical login to a fbsd server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:00:28 -0000 [From the handbook] In order for other clients to connect to the display server, edit the access control rules, and enable the connection listener. By default these are set to conservative values. To make XDM listen for connections, first comment out a line in the xdm-config file: ! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests ! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 This I understand. When I commnent this line out xdm will listen to remote login requests. But I want to make sure that ONLY machines from my *local* network can make a connection. In the Xaccess file I see something like "listen * Bff01:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff02:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff03:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff04:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff05:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b " What do I have to change in this 'LISTEN' line to have connections from other local machines but *not* from outside? -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++