Disabling XDM remote logins

[Paul Mezzanini]

Hey guys. I need to disable XDM remote logins to my workstations while leaving X Console logins enabled. I can't seem to figure it out. What is the magic line to do this?

Thx
-paul

[Tony Contratto · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul,

The file you are looking for is Xaccess. The default file is in /usr/dt/config/ but as noted in the comments at the top of the file you should first copy it to /etc/dt/config before making changes. After you copy the file, edit it and you should find two lines that are not commented out. One line will have just a "*" on the line and the other will have "* CHOOSER BROADCAST". Comment both of the lines out and then do:

# /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop
# /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc start

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Tony

[Tony Contratto]

One more note...

On an 11.0 box here, those are the only two lines in the default file that are not comments and just doing a "touch Xaccess" in the /etc/dt/config directory will also disable the remote access. But then you will lose all the nice comments and documentation in the file.

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Tony

[Paul Mezzanini]

sweet... I thought it was something like that but I didn't have the shell file in the /usr location so I didn't have any of the neat comments etc.

I'm just going to touch all my boxes and it should work great.

Thx!