Bug 89834

Summary: Explanation of setting up xdm wrong
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gaute Hope <eg>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Gaute Hope 2005-12-02 10:50:02 UTC 
While setting up xdm for remote logins the documentation at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html section
5.6.3.1 Xaccess states that the Xaccess file by default allows all connection
as long as you open for connections in xdm-config. I had to uncomment the
following line to be able to logon:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess
49:#*                                       #any host can get a login window 

My Xorg:
Xorg -version

X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.4 i386 [ELF]
Current Operating System: FreeBSD rohan.gaute.vetsj.com 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005     root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Build Date: 04 April 2005
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Fix: 

Uncomment the line.
How-To-Repeat: Do a fresh install of Xorg.
Comment 1 Pav Lucistnik freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-12-18 02:55:22 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I updated the Handbook to say it does not allow anyone to connect by default.