XDM Login Broken

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 07, Douglas J Hunley managed to emit:
> On Saturday 06 April 2002 21:41, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > From $HOME/.xsession-errors:
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > Error: Can't open display: :0
> 
> somethings not parsing the correct Xauth keys. you might need to delete 
> $HOME/.Xauthority for all users to have the keys regenerated. Didn't they 
> change the MIT-SHM-COOKIE auth method fairly recently?
> you might need to tweak the 'auth' lines in various files in /etc/X11 as well, 
> IIRC.

I've deleted $HOME/.Xauthority for all users (both of them ;-)) with
no change. the $HOME/.Xauthority files get regenerated, but are
empty. The only authorization lines under /etc/X11 are in xdm-config:

! All displays should use authorization, but we cannot be sure
! use authorization only for local displays :0, :1, etc.
DisplayManager._0.authorize:     true
DisplayManager._1.authorize:     true
DisplayManager*authComplain:     false

There is, however, this entry in xdm-config, currently commented out:

!DisplayManager.keyFile: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-keys

Perchance this is the culprit?

Kurt
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