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From: mckay@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Dwight D. Mckay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Unable to login using DECwindows?
Message-ID: <7316@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 16:48:33 GMT
Reply-To: mckay@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Dwight D. Mckay)
Organization: Purdue University
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I've just started managing a group of DECstation 3100's and oner of
them refuses to allow a login using DECwindows.  I type in a user name
and passwd and after a short delay I get the Xprompter window again.
Root can login in normally and users can login via telnet, rlogin or if
the console is setup without the Xprompter line in /etc/ttys.

I'm running Ultrix 4.1 and I have checked the binaries for login,
dxsession, Xprompter and Xcfb against those on a working system.

Any suggestions?  I'm from a Sun shop and I have yet to find all the
magic files, etc which make DECwindows work.  Any help you can provide
would be greatly appreciated.

Please *e-mail* your suggestions at: mckay@gimli.bio.purdue.edu

Thanks!

--Dwight D. McKay, Purdue University, Department of Biological Sciences
--Office: LILY B-145, Phone: (317) 494-4481
--mckay@gimli.bio.purdue.edu