> I think it is.  We have > 100 Sun workstations (all using the same NFS-mounted
> /home file store), and if you log in to several of them simultaneously
> the xauth cookies get *merged* into your ~/.Xauthority file, so that you
> can run commands with DISPLAY pointed to any of them.  With some
> implementations of xdm, the (stale) cookies used to remain in ~/.Xauthority
> indefinitely (i.e. until they were overwritten the next time you logged into
> the same machine).  

Same here.  The xdm built from xsrc *merges* the cookie stuff
correctly for me.  I can log into any machine and the new cookies
simply get added to the existing cookies in ~/.Xauthority.

-wolfgang
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