Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Jim Cunning <jcunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:25, Peter Sutter wrote:
> On Thursday 03 November 2005 02:35, Jim Cunning wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:02, Peter Sutter wrote:
[...]
> > > What baffles me, is that if I choose xdm as the display manager
> > > on the server, it works, if I choose kdm as display manager, it
> > > doesn't. Where does the difference in behaviour come from? The
> > > display manager settings in YaST is on all systems exactly the
> > > same, /etc/sysconfig/diaplaymanager is identical, as is
> > > /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
> >
[...]
> > Also verify that /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager has at least:
> >
> > DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes"
> 
> This is so.
> >
> > and, if you're trying to login as root (not recommended):
> >
> > DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="yes"
> 
> This is so too
> 
> >
> > Then, be sure you've run "SuSEconfig" and restarted KDM any time

Check the modification time of
	/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
If it is older than your last change to /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager,
you haven't run SuSEconfig. That's what updates the kdmrc file.

-- 
Jim Cunning <jcunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>