From: Timo.Korvola@hut.fi (Timo Korvola) Subject: Re: 99p8 breaks xdm -- authentication problems? Date: 15 Apr 1993 15:46:30 GMT
In article <gthomas.734827612@sfu.ca> gthomas@fraser.sfu.ca (Guy Thomas)
writes:
I initialy installed the new kernel, 99p8,
which caused xdm to fail.
- xdm comes up and presents login prompt
- login takes username and passwd
- seems to pass control to xinit
- then snaps back to the login
I've had the same problem, had to switch back to 0.99.7 to run xdm.
It seems that xinit runs .xinitrc, but the user's clients aren't
allowed to connect to the server. Putting xhost + in your Xstartup
disables the access control, so your clients (and anybody else's for that
matter) can connect, but I wouldn't recommend this on a network machine.
And a related question: has anybody gotten MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
authentication to work? It doesn't seem to work (with network connections,
That is), regardless of the kernel version. Doesn't the server support it?
It seems to accept the -auth option, since xdm manages to start the server.
If authentication doesn't work, why are local clients allowed to connect to
the server when using 0.99.7 or older versions of the kernel? Also, why
did the kernel upgrade change things?
Finally, I tried to recompile xdm and noticed some header files missing:
Where are linux/if.h, linux/if_arp.h and linux/if_route.h, which are
supposed to be included by the respective files in /usr/include/net?
Many questions, few answers...