> Digital Unix 4.0E, SuSE Linux 6.1 and Red Hat Linux 6.0 are still > (1.5 years later) shipped with this default Xaccess file. It is somehow > ironic that e.g. SuSE now uses tcpwrappers by default on most TCP > services in it's distribution and describes the use of tcpwrappers in > the manual in a special chapter about security, but fails to close (or > even mention) that way to circumvent login restrictions. Even more fun, just open 1024 xdcmp sessions with a remote xdm on a low spec box. Xdm doesnt like this. Gdm at least does damage limitation in this case. On the Red Hat side, for a standard Red Hat 6 using gdm not xdm, edit /etc/X11/gdm.conf and set it to [xdcmp] Enable=0 and life is happier.
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