Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:15:47 -0400 From: Mike Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu> To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM Message-ID: <199809241600.MAA28804@lafcol> In-Reply-To: <19980924103040.M12188@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> References: <199809240458.AAA18719@lafcol> <199809240458.AAA18719@lafcol>
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>I don't think DES is your problem -- I've never installed it and my xdm >works just fine. How are you starting xdm? And did you change any of its >config files? What's in your .xsession? > >From the error message it looks as though xterm is using a different >authorisation cookie to the one expected by the server. IIRC, the default >xdm config starts the X server with an authorisation file buried somewhere >under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authfiles. If you're trying to use your own >authorisation file (eg. with an XAUTHORITY variable pointing to >~/.Xauthority) then you will have problems. Probably that is what's >happening. > >HTH, > > Scott I have no XAUTHORITY variable set. I tried deleteing ~/.Xauthority, I tried copying the authorization files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles in my .Xauthority. My .xsession is only "xterm &" I started xdm by logging in as root and just running "xdm" Every config file should be the default, except for my screen resolution/refresh rate. Also, I'm trying to log in locally using XDM, not remotely(not sure if I said that earlier). Thanks, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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