>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com> writes:

Paul> It seems that whenever I log in to one machine (via xdm), I lose
Paul> my entire .Xauthority file, preventing me from logging in or
Paul> starting new clients on the other machines.

Paul> Is there any way to tell X that I'm sharing this file?

I don't know.  One potential hack, though, would be:

XAUTHORITY="${HOME}/.Xauthority-`hostname -s`"

But it would need to go in before xdm generates the xauth file.
.xsession might be too late for that.  And this would be a major hack,
anyway, and a pain to start up clients on different machines.

Chris

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