Re: XDM

[Scott Mitchell <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:13:17AM -0400, Mike Knoll wrote:
> I built XFree86, and can run xinit to start an X session.  I tried to login
> using XDM, and I get the error in my .xsession-errors:
> 
> Xlib: connection to "0:0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0
> 
> My guess is this is because the cookie uses DES, and when I installed
> freebsd, I selected not to install DES.
> 
> Am I correct?  And if so, how can I build in support for DES?

I don't think DES is your problem -- I've never installed it and my xdm
works just fine.  How are you starting xdm?  And did you change any of its
config files?  What's in your .xsession?

>From the error message it looks as though xterm is using a different
authorisation cookie to the one expected by the server.  IIRC, the default
xdm config starts the X server with an authorisation file buried somewhere
under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authfiles.  If you're trying to use your own
authorisation file (eg. with an XAUTHORITY variable pointing to
~/.Xauthority) then you will have problems.  Probably that is what's
happening.

HTH,

	Scott

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