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* xdm Xauthority and mount -o managed authfiles
@ 2003-10-12 5:30 pbs
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From: pbs @ 2003-10-12 5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
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xmd creates an Xauthority file in the dir /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles
which by default has a colon ":" in the name. MSwindows does not support
":" in names and this causes an error in xdm. As a work around if the
authfiles dir is mounted as a managed mount
mount -o managed c:/cygwin/etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles \
/etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles
Then the file is created without an error.
Perhapse some one would like to verify this, and if it is correct, I
think it would be a good idea to add this to the FAQ:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq
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