Add XDMCP client support
Bug #723224 reported by
Francisco Panis Kaseker
This bug affects 8 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Light Display Manager |
Triaged
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Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have extensive experience with systems multiseats. We use XDMCP at the Federal University of Parana with single and multiple terminals. We want to remove gdm altogether due to their problems. It is envisaged something like the gdmchooser or a way to implement a custom menu in lightdm?
In GDM we use X -indirect to provide a menu by gdmchoose with xdmcp servers and after choice selected, client try X -query with_selected_
thanks
summary: |
- Something like gdmchooser + Add XDMCP client support |
Changed in lightdm: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: | removed: chooser gdm indirect menu query servers xdmcp |
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
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This is a feature I definitely want LightDM to support.
What needs to be done:
- XDMCP client code needs to be implemented, see src/xdmcp-server.c fo"r the XDMCP server implementation
- This probably needs to be implemented in liblightdm-greeter as it doesn't need to run server side or with elevated priviledges
- Some thought needs to be done on how liblightdm-qt would be able to do this (does it need a separate implementation?)
- I think the lightdm server needs to be involved to send the authentication to the remote session? Not sure.
- An example greeter needs to be written that acts as an XDMCP client.
This is a low priority for me at the moment, but would be an excellent project for a new contributor. I will help anyone who wants to implement these features.