http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854364
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=854364#c9
Egbert Eich
DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm
Sorry, that I didn't care about your question before.
Axel, thanks for confirming! kdm would be maintained by KDE. I believe I understand what is happening: Desktops like Gnome and KDE don't allow multiple logins of the same user at the same time (I know for sure that Gnome does this, not so sure about KDE), therefore when you have autologin enabled you are logged in already. Trying to log in again as the same user from remote will this be inhibited - thus the session is closed. Therefore this more a feature than a bug. You will get the same behaviour ssh-ed into the machine with X-forwarding and did: Xephyr :1 -query localhost -retro However, inspired by this I tested several DMs on Tumbleweed: sddm (the one KDE uses to replace KDM), gdm and lightdm. Autologin on off sddm no XDMCP no XDMCP gdm no XDMCP no XDMCP lightdm XDMCP (*) XDMCP(*) (*) dm prevents 2nd login as same user - even for twm session, therefore, when autologin is enabled, a remote login isn't possible (until local session is logged out). On 13.1 everything still works as expected (with some surprises) while on TW neither sddm nor kdm allow XDMCP (at least not by setting DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager). Since the observed behaviour is actually intended, I'd like to close this as WORKSFORME. The 'no second login for the same user policy should be mentioned in the release notes, though). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.