Re: XDM "unsecure session" (SOLVED)
Yeah, this happened to me too. I guess it's a bug. Just do the following as root
and let xdm restart
mkdir /var/lib/xdm
mkdir /var/lib/xdm/authdir
chmod 700 /var/lib/xdm/authdir
mkdir /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles
chmod 700 /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles
You get the 'unsecure session' because xdm didn't run the xserver with auth
control. This happens because it wants to use the aforementioned directories for
the XAUTHORITY file it creates. The dirs don't exists so it can't do this and
just turns off auth control. Someone should file a bug report. Since I gave you
the answer, how 'bout you? 8)
Tim Buller wrote:
> Hello-
> I did a clean install of 2.0-980504 and after tweaking a couple
> things, XDM came up with the login greeting "This is an unsecure session".
>
> I can get rid of this message by seting
>
> DisplayManager*authComplain: false
>
> in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, but this doesn't seem like the right way to
> fix the problem. I notice also in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config:
>
> DisplayManager.authDir: /var/lib/xdm
>
> The specified directory does not exist... I've not seen this message
> before, and am curious about what it means exactly.
>
> TIA,
>
> Tim
>
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>
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