Re: X (KDE) Authentication Issues

On Mon, November 10, 2008 12:11 pm, Jon Earle wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
>
> Hopefully a simple one.
>
>
> Trying to shut off all (I mean, all) X authentication, authorization,
> permissions, etc on some workstations.  There is no need or concern for
> security or anything that "gets in the way".  I want to be be able to
> work with these workstations as freely one one used to before the Internet
> became a common word.

Why not be root?
>
> Systems are FC5 with KDE 3.5.  The vintage of the systems is just fine.
>
>
> The other point to note is that I'm running chroot jails on these boxes
> and want to allow X apps to work properly from inside the chroot.
>
> I've tried the old "xhost +" and "export DISPLAY=" tricks to no avail.  I
>  ended up bind mounting the host's /tmp to the jail's /tmp, and got an X
> app to fire up (which told me that KDE is not listening on tcp), but all
> characters on the app were squares.  I tried installing/starting xfs but
> that didn't help to resolve that.
>
> When I launch the app, I get:
>
>
> QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket specified
> QSocketNotifier: Internal error
>
>
> I tried editing /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc to remove anything from
> ServerArgsLocal
> (and restarted KDE) that might prevent TCP access (so I don't have to bind
>  mount /tmp) but I still see nothing listening on port 6000.
>
> I've tried googling to figure out how to disable security, but all posts
> (and
> reasonably so for most cases) seem to be discussing how to enable it (and
> how disabling it is bad).
>
> Can anyone offer some thoughts on removing all traces of X security and
> also how to fix the font issue so X apps are usable?
>
> Many thanks!
>
>
> Jon
>
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