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On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, Khetan Gajjar wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> Everytime I run xdm, I then have to login as root, xhost + and
> then restart xdm.
> 
> Anyway I can get xhost to retain it's settings permanently (i.e. xhost + 
> - all clients)  ? It doens't seem to retain settings.....
> 

put the command "xhost +" in the startup script of xdm 
(/usr/x11R6/lib/X11/xdm/X_setup_0)