RE: No luck with getting xdm to work
On 13-Oct-2001 Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> I have read the mini-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org and RTFM. Here is what
> appears in /var/log/xdm.log
>
> AUDIT: Fri Oct 12 20:02:22 2001: 359 X: client 3 rejected from local host
> Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xmodmap: unable to open display ':0'
>
this sounds like X has been tweaked to not allow local logins or possibly the
allowConsole setting was hosed. Look at the files in /etc/X11 and see if
anything looks odd.
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