Subject: Re: 1.5 xdm setup changes
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/15/2001 22:11:09
Sorry for the noise...

At 9:22 Uhr +0100 15.1.2001, Hauke Fath wrote:
>I moved a 1.4Q mac68k installation to 1.5, and as a result, the xdm setup
>refused any access to the local X server. It turned out that the default
>for "DisplayManager.DISPLAY.authName" has changed from "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1"
>to "XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1".

The mac68k port has an "unofficial" X server that is capable of 8 Bit
greyscale where the "official" one can only do b/w. I routinely replaced
the standard version after the upgrade and did not realize that the
replacement, of course, was built on 1.4 and does not use DES.

	hauke

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