Me again. Okay. It looks like XDM is in fact logging in properly and it is a permissions problem that is at issue here. The pattern is that I log in via Xwindows/XDM, there is a pause and then the screen resets right back to a login prompt. If I "cat .xsession-errors" in my home dir, I see: ======================= /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: xmodmap: command not found stderr is not a tty - where are you? "When in doubt, tell the truth." -- Mark Twain /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /9gbdisk/usr/home/misha/.xsession: Permission denied /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: exec: /9gbdisk/usr/home/misha/.xsession: cannot execute: Permission denied ======================= Can anyone point me to the chapter and verse on the permissions these files are supposed to be set to, or let me know how else to fix this? Thanks! --Michel "...In a New York minute, Everything can change. In a New York minute, Nothing is the same..." -- Don Henley, Album - The End of the Innocence, 1989 (NEW ICQ #137401206) (replyto: michel@atlantic-online.ns.ca)