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xdm Xauthority and mount -o managed authfiles
- From: pbs <pnews at lomarline dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:09:01 +1300
- Subject: xdm Xauthority and mount -o managed authfiles
- Organization: InterNetNews site lomarline.freeserve.co.uk
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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