From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 19:56:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from set.spradley.org (set.spradley.tmi.net [207.170.107.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3EE37B51B for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsprad@set.spradley.org) Received: from set.spradley.org (localhost.spradley.tmi.net [127.0.0.1]) by set.spradley.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA50924; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:56:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tsprad@set.spradley.org) Message-Id: <200004190256.VAA50924@set.spradley.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't get logged in with xdm In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:08:35 +0200." <11784.955955315@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:56:02 -0500 From: Ted Spradley Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. Turns out that Robert Withrow answered my question the day before I asked it ;-) I added: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 to my xdm-config and now it works. I guess the 4.0 CD-ROM doesn't have XDM authorization compiled in. > > Try deleting your (possibly stale) ~/.Xauthority . > > Ciao, > Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message