[Bug 209851] x11/xdm: indirect chooser broken

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            Bug ID: 209851
           Summary: x11/xdm: indirect chooser broken
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: amd64
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: x11 at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: gerrit.kuehn at aei.mpg.de
          Assignee: x11 at FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(x11 at FreeBSD.org)

I have a very old-school indirect xdm/chooser list for a couple of
machines (Linux and FreeBSD). This works fine with the chooser running on
a Linux box. The chooser on a FreeBSD box comes up with the chooser list,
but after selection of a machine I do not get a login window. Instead, I get
the message "Cannot connect to xdm" in xdm.log, and after some blinking and
flashing
of the screen I get the chooser back. This behaviour is always the same, no
matter if I choose the local (FreeBSD machine) or a different (remote, be it
Linux or FreeBSD) one.

I can get a login window from a FreeBSD machine just fine when
contacting it directly  with "X -query <host>", but not going over the
chooser on that machine with "X -indirect <host>". It also works fine using
the chooser from a Linux box, so it looks like something is broken between
the chooser and the xdm login on the FreeBSD machine.
Using Google, I found someone describing quite the same issue (already a couple
of years ago): <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/5904/>
Unfortunately, there is no solution mentioned there.

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