Anders Johansson
On Saturday 29 May 2004 09.40, Mark Gray wrote:
Exactly -- (Perhaps I chose the wrong email in the thread to provide the information for others like myself who can not spare the machine cycles to use ssh -X, but since the poster I responded to was under the impression that changing the kdm config file was sufficient to allow tcp connections, his email seemed like the right one to reply to.)
The only reason it is not sufficient is a bug in SuSEconfig.xdm. It is supposed to check for user changes, and if it finds any, not modify the file. However, in that script there is a bug that nullifies that.
In all other cases, editing the config file is enough to make it stick, and it will be here too, once suse fix the bug
That explains that -- I did not look closely enough at SuSEconfig.xdm to see the bug, and just assumed that it was intentional. In any case doing things the SuSE way by editing /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (or using yast) is almost always better than directly editing the config files themselves. (A painful lesson I have learned time and again :-)