[kde-doc-english]Re: KDM distant connections

[BOSSU Yves]

Éric Bischoff a écrit:
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> Hello,
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> I've been told by Yves, a new KDE user, that there's nothing in our 
> documentation to explain how to let KDM offer a distant connection (XDMCP 
> protocol).
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> He is under KDE 3.0 and I explained him that he should modify
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> He said that it worked out.
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> I think it would be nice to explain that manipulation in the doc. Moreover, it 
> would be better to allow to configure that in kcontrol, but in the meantime 
> we could document the manual procedure.
> 
> I have asked Yves to explain exactly what he did and what he was exactly 
> trying to do (which machine does what, etc). Whoever takes this documentation 
> tasklet, please contact him directly to get that information.

The commentaries in Xaccess are almost self-explanatory. It can be a good base 
for a documentation inserted in the KDE doc.
In kcontrol, the mapping between the Xacess items and graphical widgets is 
almost obvious.
My need was basic : authorize all hosts to connect on kdm. I had only to 
un-comment the corresponding line in Xaccess.
A simple button "authorize all hosts to connect" is enough.

The other lines in Xaccess (chosser configuration) could be graphically 
parametrable in an "advance menu".



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