Re: No luck with getting xdm to work
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:57:09PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Which file should I check? My /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess has every line
commented out as of right now. I've tried with
local
localhost
on a line uncommented and still the same error message.
Ian
p.s. sorry for posting twice, I realized I hadn't cc'd my other response
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