[OpenIndiana-discuss] It was so easy... Re: xvnc-inetd only accepting one connection in total?? Huh??

Mon Mar 4 17:15:23 UTC 2013

And now I realise I haven't understood a thing... Nothing works. All new 
connection attempts are met with a request for a vnc password... But 
there is no password configured...

Gaaah!

On 2013-03-04 14:57, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> I started on a newly installed pure OI151a7.
>
> #I first added a few lines to /etc/gdm/custom.conf on the host where I 
> want to login
> pfexec vi /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> #These lines, namely
> [security]
> DisallowTCP=false
> AllowRoot=true
> AllowRemoteRoot=true
>
> [xdmcp]
> Enable=true
> #Right..----------
> #then I did
>
> pfexec svcadm enable xvnc-inetd
> pfexec svcadm restart gdm
>
> #and finally
>
> pfexec ck-seat-tool -a --session-type=LoginWindow --display-type=LocalVNC
>
> #a couple of times (8, I think), and then
>
> vncviewer IP-addr-of-above-host
>
> #on another host (notably a Ubuntustudio 12.10)
>
>
>
> Please note, I did the same on another machine, that already has 
> SunRays installed, and there it failed... Hmm. I need to check on what 
> SunRay utinstall actually does to a system.
> Also, I have absolutely no idea where ck-seat-tool leaves its 
> doings... If anyone can show me where config data entered thru 
> ck-seat-tool ends up...
>
>
> A: What's the version of your system?
> B: Check the properties of the xvnc-inetd service: svccfg; select 
> xvnc-inetd; listprop
> See that it doesn't run in wait mode and that security-type=none
>
>
> vncpasswd, properties in xvnc-inetd are both things that affect VNC 
> requesting a password.
>
>
>
>
> On 2013-03-04 13:44, Andrej Javoršek wrote:
>> Hello.
>> Can you please summarize (in short) all the necessary steps to get from
>> system without VNC to your point!
>> In my case I get VNC password prompt and don't know where to set or 
>> disable
>> it.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Andrej
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Hans J. Albertsson <
>> hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Whatever it was that looked like a timeout to destroy my test login
>>> sessions must have been me doing something stupid to the wrong 
>>> window in
>>> the general clutter.
>>>
>>> A bunch of windows have stayed up over night, at least.
>>>
>>> So, that was it??? Or???
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2013-03-03 22:24, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> So easy.... I think ???
>>>>
>>>> ck-seat-tool -a --display-type=LocalVNC --session-type=LoginWindow
>>>>
>>>> Repeat suitable number of times, and you get the ability to run
>>>> suitable-number separate sessions. Or do you??
>>>>
>>>> Quirk remaining: There's a timeout..?? Is that in gdm, or in Xvnc 
>>>> or in
>>>> the login itself or in the shell? Or am I totally off, and this is 
>>>> not the
>>>> way to do it?? and I'm just seeing that it doesn't really do what I 
>>>> think
>>>> it does?
>>>>
>>>> On 2013-03-02 09:58, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> The SunRay system assigns display numbers dynamically, sort-of 
>>>>> (it's a
>>>>> kludge, really, I know, but it acts as if it were true), so I was 
>>>>> thinking
>>>>> this mechanism should have been a natural for any interface 
>>>>> designer when
>>>>> TigerVNC appeared..
>>>>>
>>>>> I THINK I understand how to do this via console-kit and GDM, 
>>>>> (Thanks Mr
>>>>> Palo!) in a way that at least won't require me to assign special, 
>>>>> different
>>>>> commands to each prospective user, but rather will manage a 
>>>>> limited set of
>>>>> possible displays in a sort of dynamic manner.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which is reasonable.
>>>>>
>>>>> For Mr Harvey: I don't think the port is used in that fashion when in
>>>>> nowait state: Displays can, I think, use any type of channel, 
>>>>> pipes or unix
>>>>> sockets or tcp sockets, to talk to the X clients and any port 
>>>>> number can be
>>>>> disassociated from the socket used to communicate between the 
>>>>> caller and
>>>>> whatever service the port server initiated on behalf of the caller.
>>>>> And as far as I can see, the xvnc man page says that in nowait and 
>>>>> inetd
>>>>> mode, Xvnc's port is only used when prompting the initiation of a 
>>>>> service,
>>>>> not for running it. Then again, I'm not really an X expert.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2013-03-01 23:19, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 03/ 1/13 01:57 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So it's a bad bad bad design under the hood, and the manual lies 
>>>>>>> or is
>>>>>>> at least
>>>>>>> very incomplete.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or what?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry, you're reaching the limit of what I remember about this
>>>>>> mechanism, since
>>>>>> it's been years since I've really worked with it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW I haven't been able to find any document actually describing the
>>>>>>> "-once"
>>>>>>> option to "Xvnc -inetd". Where should I look for that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Xserver(1):
>>>>>> -once causes the server to terminate (rather than reset)
>>>>>> when the XDMCP session ends.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I suddenly feel very dense... :-) Sorry...
>>>>>
>>>>>
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