RE: XDM

[Rouyre Frédéric <Frederic dot Rouyre at osl dot be>]

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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