From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 14:40:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E2537BADF for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 14:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00343; Mon, 29 May 2000 21:39:43 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:39:43 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Philippe CASIDY Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 RELEASE and xdm Message-ID: <20000529213943.B260@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <200005271029.MAA00418@greatoak.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200005271029.MAA00418@greatoak.home>; from pcasidy@worldnet.fr on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:29:42PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Philippe CASIDY wrote: [...] > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0 > > This messages appears when xsm tries to start. > > Another behavior is that if that xdm does not allow me to start a > failsafe session by depressing F1 instead of return after password. Next time, check the archives first. I've answered this question at least twice now. It's to do with: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config You have to change the following resource as follows: DisplayManager._0.authorize: false Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message