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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.org>
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Subject: Re: Can't get logged in with xdm 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:36:11 EST."
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:36:11 EST, Ted Spradley wrote:

> The xdm configuration is identical to what I've been using on
> 3.4-stable (and previous) for years, and worked on 4.0-current (before
> the release) and now on 4-stable on an Alpha.

So you've made sure that your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config (and in
particular, DisplayManager._0.authorize) is identical to the ones you've
used on your working hosts.  If so, perhaps you had XDM authorization
compiled in before.

Try deleting your (possibly stale) ~/.Xauthority .

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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