Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:45:05 +0100 From: David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, David Reid <mail@david-reid.com> Subject: Re: is this a problem? Message-ID: <4440B291.5030504@jetnet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1145090117.83050.49.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <4433FD58.8090307@david-reid.com> <1145090117.83050.49.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:24 +0100, David Reid wrote: >> Apr 5 17:02:17 draak gdm[600]: gdm_auth_user_add: >> /home/david/.Xauthority is bigger than sysadmin specified maximum file size. >> >> How do I fix it? > > GDM wants this file to be less than 64 KB to avoid a potential DoS > attack. If the file is too large, GDM will create a fallback file > instead, so this error really isn't too bad. If you don't care about > your various display cookies, you could even remove the file, and have > GDM recreate it; or you can use xauth(1) to remove any stale cookies. Thanks for the explanation :-) david
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