[tech] Re: [wheel] Scully..

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:00:45AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Scully won't connect to mussel, mermaid or beowulf for xdm. I've looked through the setup and it seems okay, although it is using shared private key "john" - is that right?
> 
> I used the /etc/init.d/xdm script to shutdown and restart xdm but it doesn't seem to be running on port 177 where it should be. The exact message on scully is:
> 
> > XDMCP: Manager unwilling Host unwilling
> 
> Then it resets itself and tries again.

Let me guess. Someone did an "apt-get upgrade" on mussel and
replaced all the XDM config files with blank ones? Including, say,
/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess?

Debugging it was confusing because scully and/or mussel didn't seem to
respond immediately to changes - it would continue to fail a few times
even after it was fixed.

I made the authentication use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE rather than XDM... I
think the shared key is irrelevant to that. XDM on mermaid/mussel isn't
configured with any kind of key.

Oh - and the setup password seems to have fallen off scully. I can't
seem to put it back on. This may mean people will fiddle with it and
break it more often.

Nick.

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