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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
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Subject: Re: xdm xhosts authorization confusing me 
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:11:25 -0400, Laurence Berland wrote:

> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

This is because xdm provides the user who logs in with a cookie which
must be available later when clients try to display to your X server.

An easy work-around is to provide root with a symlink to your user's
.Xauthority file as follows:

	# cd /root
	# ln -s /home/username/.Xauthority

Obviously, you would substitute for ``username'' whatever username you
use to log in to XDM.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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