xdm and chooser woes

Gerrit Kühn gerrit.kuehn at aei.mpg.de
Fri May 27 06:17:54 UTC 2016


On Thu, 26 May 2016 17:50:43 -0300 Otacílio <otacilio.neto at bsd.com.br>
wrote about Re: xdm and chooser woes:

O> I use xdm on all my virtual machines to log in. But, I face a problem 
O> with xdm from ports. When I inform the login and password the screen 
O> blinks some times and returns to xdm screen login. The solution that
O> I'm found to this was apply this patch to xdm port:

[...]

Instead of disabling the authorization, you can try adding this line
to /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config:

---
DisplayManager*authName:        MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
---


This is one of the things I mentioned earlier that I'd suggest to add to
the default installation.


cu
  Gerrit


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