On Wednesday 20 April 2005 17:01, Alvin Beach wrote:
Hello David,
I haven't used XDMCP before. The closest thing I've used to that is VNC but I don't think that what you want to use.
I just did the useradd command on my machine. It adds the account but doesn't create the home directory.
useradd -m <username> creates the home directory as well. Well, maybe the new users have to be in a specific group. Here on my machine, Yast puts them in audio, dialout, uucp and wheel, by default. Did you check if group memberships are the same for Yast- and useradd-created users? Another place to look may be the Xacces files. I have one in /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and another one in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess . Maybe Yast modifies them when it detects that XDMCP connections are allowed (which are disabled by default, as they say in /etc/X11/xdm/README.security). Finally, the Yast perl sources might help elucidate the magic behind its behavior. ;) Just guessing... Kind regards, Michael -- Michael Schmuker University of Frankfurt Chair of Cheminformatics http://www.modlab.de