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RE: XDM
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: XDM
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:02:24 -0400
Can you explain what do you really want to do with xdm on Windows?
Login into what?
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rouyre Frédéric [mailto:Frederic.Rouyre@osl.be]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:54 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: XDM
>
>
> Ok, it seems that the X server crashes just after the
> Greeting Windows got
> the password, so its the authentication of the
> user that makes the XDM child process crash (I'm
> investigation further but
> if someone is interested in XDM on NT, help is appreciated)
>
> regards,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rouyre Frédéric [SMTP:Frederic.Rouyre@osl.be]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:08 PM
> > To: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> > Subject: XDM
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I was really interested in having the XDM daemon
> running on my NT4
> > box (i admit it can be dangerous due to the way it is being
> run but its
> > just
> > a test...). After changing some stuff in the code of
> xdm-332 (the only one
> > I
> > could get in a single tar...) I got the wanted window. But
> what happens is
> > strange. If I make a copy of the authfile to .Xauthority in
> my home dir, I
> > can execute an X clients. If I remove it, connections are
> refused by the
> > server (that's normal, I suppose). If now I try to log on,
> it seems that
> > the
> > .Xauthority file is empty. Where do I have to look for
> stuff to change? Do
> > you think it could be due to error caused by cygwin calls
> or due to a
> > *BUGGY* authentication method? (well, every password
> "works" for now).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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