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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 23:05:12 -0800
From:      "Danny J. Mitzel" <mitzel@Ipsilon.COM>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   help with xauth under FreeBSD-2.2.2/XFree-3.2
Message-ID:  <199802190705.XAA11613@mailhost.Ipsilon.COM>

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I have a FreeBSD-2.2.2/XFree-3.2 system.  I'm trying to get X started
using xauthority so that I can get exmh_bg process to work (which uses
tcl/tk 'send' requiring xauthority).  

if I run xdm, the X server [XF86_Mach64] gets started with authentication 
enabled and an entry is created in the $HOME/.Xauthority.

when I run my normal X startup script (which does 
'xinit -- -auth $HOME/.Xauthority') then xauthority is not enabled.
I'm using the same .Xauthority file that was generated by xdm,
and my startup script works fine on FreeBSD-2.1.0/XFree-3.2 and
FreeBSD-2.1.0/XFree-3.3.1 systems I have.

my Xauthority has entries for 'hostname:0' and 'hostname/unix:0'.
is there a new transport added that I need to specify?

thanks for any suggestions!
danny (mitzel@ipsilon.com)


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