How Do I Configure Lightdm to Work with Xdmcp?
Does Anyone Have a Set up to Make Xdmcp Work with Lightdm on 11.10. Using Xdmcp+Gdm Was Easy as Pie, Worked Great. After the Upgrade to 11.10 with the Switch...
Does anyone have a set up to make XDMCP work with LightDM on 11.10. Using XDMCP+GDM was easy as pie, worked great. After the upgrade to 11.10 with the switch to LightDM I can't figure out how to get it to work. Where is the documentation that explains the custom lightdm.conf file?
Any help appreciated...
1 Answer
To enable the XDMCP server in LightDM edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and add the following section:
[XDMCPServer]
enabled=true
Then restart LightDM with sudo restart lightdm from a text console (logout from any graphical sessions first).
You can set the XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 key by setting key=value (value is in the same format as is used in the X -cookie option). If the key is not set then no authentication is used.
You can change the UDP/IP port by setting port=1234.
All the available LightDM settings are shown in the example configuration in /usr/share/doc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.
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