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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:40:36 -0400
From:      Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Robert Withrow <bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM>, Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>, witr@rwwa.com
Subject:   Re: Authorization broken in 4.0 REL/XDM? 
Message-ID:  <200004142343.TAA11815@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM>
In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com>  of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:46:48 EDT." <200004132046.QAA36277@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> 

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Ted is still the man, but the patch I sent earlier had a
typo that prevents correct authorization processing...  

To recap, in 4.0 REL, xdm is built with the ability to do
XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1, but, apparently, the servers are not.
This prevents all clients from connecting to the server. The
following patch disables XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 and just has
the server use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1.

It would be nice if this was listed in the errata.  Of course,
even better would be to have the servers re-built so they support
XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 (assuming that is truly what the problem is)
and have *them* listed in the errata also.

Here is the corrected patch (note the "-" instead of the "_"):

*** xdm-config.orig     Thu Apr 13 16:37:35 2000
--- xdm-config  Fri Apr 14 19:31:07 2000
***************
*** 10,16 ****
--- 10,18 ----
  ! X terminals will be configured that way, so by default
  ! use authorization only for local displays :0, :1, etc.
  DisplayManager._0.authorize:  true
+ DisplayManager._0.authName:   MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
  DisplayManager._1.authorize:  true
+ DisplayManager._1.authName:   MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
  ! The following three resources set up display :0 as the console.
  DisplayManager._0.setup:      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
  DisplayManager._0.startup:    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole

Thanks!

-- 
Robert Withrow -- (+1 978 288 8256)
BWithrow@BayNetworks.com



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