Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:01:30 -0400 From: Andrew BOGECHO <andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm and authorisation failure with 4.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20000730180130.C23342@cs.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000730223250.B1220@fs.tum.de>; from Reinhold Huber on Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:32:51PM %2B0200 References: <20000730223250.B1220@fs.tum.de>
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Sun Jul 30 18:00:25 EDT 2000
Yesterdays post from Jimmy, I beileve it should work:
From: Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@uli.it>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Re: Can not login in with XDM
Maybe this will help:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18180
It worked for me :-)
bye,
jimmy
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A.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:32:51PM +0200, Reinhold Huber wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> today, I found time to install 4.0-RELEASE from Walnut Creek cdrom. There
> seems to be a problem with xdm and the X server, which has to do
> with MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE authorisation.
>
> The greeter window of xdm is titled "X Window System" instead of the
> machine name, the error message "login incorrect" is black, in contrast to
> the configuration file, which says it should be red. In the .xsession-errors
> file of the user, I find lots of
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0
>
> and in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors:
> [...]
> System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m de
> -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors
> from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm'
> AUDIT: Sun Jul 30 19:05:47 2000: 877 X: client 2 rejected from local host
> Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
> AUDIT: Sun Jul 30 19:05:47 2000: 877 X: client 3 rejected from local host
> Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0
>
> In the archives of freebsd-questions, I found several reports of the problem,
> and one answer about recompiling xdm against a new PAM library, and no more
> answers.
>
> - Is there a solution for this problem short of compiling parts of X? I don't
> dare doing this, unless it's absolutely necessary.
> - If not, might it be a solution to get a re-compiled xdm from somebody who
> successfully recompiled it? Where could I get one?
>
> Thx in advance,
> Reinhold Huber
>
>
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