Package: xdmcp-bind Priority: optional Version: 3.2-1 Source: diet-pc Architecture: all Maintainer: Paul A. Whittaker Section: System/X11 Destination: any Depends: x-server, sysvinit, initscript, busybox (>= 1.14.3-1) Description: X11/XDMCP session initiator script This is a more limited version of the xdmcp-session package, which instructs the primary X11 server to contact a remote XDM(/GDM/KDM) server, instead of starting an auxiliary X server (Xnest/Xephyr) to do the same thing. . The difference is that this package can't terminate the session and start a new one without taking down the entire GUI environment, and therefore can't provide any way of changing session parameters (eg. the server to connect to) via the GUI. This solution is also less secure than xdmcp-session, because the entire local GUI is accessible from the network, rather than just a "sandboxed" portion of it. The benefit of using this solution is that the overall footprint is much smaller because xdmcp-bind doesn't have bulky dependencies (xnest, libxaw6, libxt6, etc). If you want to use a local desktop (QVWM or similar) as a session launcher, then you should probably use xdmcp-session instead. . The package expects role names "xdmserver" and "fontserver" to be defined, either via environment variable (e.g. kernel command line) or /etc/hosts entry (e.g. added by udhcpc using DHCP results). The package will use "fontserver" as an X11 font source by means of the XFS protocol, and will attempt to connect to "xdmserver" using the XDMCP protocol when runlevel 1 is entered.