[642] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: X11R5 xdm problems - missing or stolen tokens
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob MacKinnon)
Thu Mar 5 11:03:24 1992
From: Rob MacKinnon <robmack@bsc.no>
To: tinglett@rchland.vnet.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 16:17:15 MET
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <0deHz5o91IXt4zHVsK@rchland.ibm.com>; from "Todd Inglett" at Feb 24, 92 12:56 pm
We modified the X11R5 xdm code to do a ka_UserAuthenticateGeneral() and invoke
the program under a pagsh. So far, since making these changes about two weeks
ago, the stolen tokens problem has disappeared. Also, we don't have a problem
with users logging on without PAGs after xdm has run for several days.
>
> Excerpts from mail: 24-Feb-92 Re: X11R5 xdm problems - mi..
> Scanner@RCHGATE.rchland. (1094)
>
> > > I think I've worked around the AIX xdm problem. Just run it like this
> > > (from /etc/rc or whatever):
> > >
> > > /usr/afs/etc/pagsh -c "/usr/bin/X11/xdm -config /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config"
>
> > The major problem with this, though, is that xdm can then only manage
> > one station.
>
> I still tell ka_UserAuthenticateGeneral to get a new PAG for the user
> that is being authenticated. I guess I didn't make that very clear.
>
> > I have the setpag() call in the section of dm.c right after xdm forks
> > to manage a display.
>
> > I get the same problems I had before.. after about two days, no more
> > pags are created, and user's get logged on without a pag.
>
> Hmm...I suppose I'll see it eventually, too. Are you running AIX 3.1?
> I wonder why ka_UserAuthenticateGeneral isn't hanging for you? I am
> still using the x11r4 version of xdm, so perhaps there is a difference.
>
> -todd inglett
>
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