http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538064 User vuntz@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538064#c24 --- Comment #24 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@novell.com> 2009-09-30 10:15:43 MDT --- Oh. I thought that XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME was upstream in X. So no way the patch can go upstream for gdm :/ (In reply to comment #23)
Well, the thing is that we set XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME to localhost, so no need to know the host name...
Not so good: You need to add localhost to the Xauthority file to make this work.
Yes, that's what we do.
If home directories are exported over nfs and shared between different systems with sessions running simultaneously you will get into trouble. This is the whole point of having a unique host name.
So the right thing would be to just use the hostname we have during authentication for the entry in Xauthority and for XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME, even if it changes afterwards? If yes, then we'll have to update the patch (but for 11.3, I guess) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.