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From: len@mel.dit.csiro.au (Len Makin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 2 queries: Xdm & lockscreen
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.225228.9518@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 4 Dec 90 22:52:28 GMT
References: <9011292309.AA04319@mycroft.mayo.edu>
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In article <9011292309.AA04319@mycroft.mayo.edu>, bmc@MYCROFT.MAYO.EDU writes:
|> 
|> Having setup a Sun 3/50 as an X terminal and using Xdm as the 
|> login prompter, I get a message "This is an unsecure session"
|> in the login widget. How does one go about eliminating it and

Put the following in your  xdm-config file:

DisplayManager*authorize:       False

|> what does it mean?

RTFM  (man xdm) 
     DisplayManager.DISPLAY.authorize

     DisplayManager.DISPLAY.authName
          authorize is a boolean resource which controls whether
          xdm generates and uses authorization for the server
          connections.  If authorization is used, authName speci-
          fies the type to use.  Currently, xdm supports only
          MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1
          could be supported as well, but DES is not generally
          distributable.  XDMCP connections specify which author-
          ization types are supported dynamically, so authName is
          ignored in this case.  When authorize is set for a
          display and authorization is not available, the user is
          informed by having a different message displayed in the
          login widget.  By default, authorize is "true"; auth-
          Name is "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1".

     DisplayManager.DISPLAY.authFile"
          This file is used to communicate the authorization data
|> 
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	Len Makin
	Monash University College, Gippsland
	len@giaea.oz.au
	(Temporarily on leave at CSIRO DIT (Melbourne)).
	len@mel.dit.csiro.au