>Hello. > >I am having some very weird problems with xdm. I have have setup a thinclient >environment using pxes boot. But, in addition to the thin clients, there are >some "thick" clients on the network that pull X sessions via xdmcp. > >Normally, everything works fine. But, every once in a while -- without >warning -- when a specific user logs in it crashes his connection and xdm >restarts. It will not let him in. Right now that user is me (which is >good, because I now have the time to try to get to the bottom of this). > >So, whenever I try to login, I put in my username and password into xdm. I >hit enter, and my screen crashes, and xdm is respawned. It will not let me >in. Now, before you start talking about "xhost this" and "xauth that" keep >in mind OTHER USERS CAN LOG IN TO AND FROM THE VERY SAME MACHINES. The >ipaddress of the client appears to be completely irrelevant here. > >It is the UID that xdm rejects, not the ipaddress. I just cannot figure out >*why* it suddenly decides to start hating certain uids. I have cleared out >everything in my home directory and everything in /tmp that I own. No matter >what I do, it will not let me log in. On the console I get these messages: > >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP >208.226.104.24 port 59785 >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP >208.226.104.24 port 59786 >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP >208.226.104.24 port 59787 >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP >208.226.104.24 port 59788 >AUDIT: Wed Mar 24 09:46:04 2004: 2198 X: client 2 rejected from IP >208.226.104.24 port 59789 >and so on.. >. >. >. > > >This has been happening for about a year now, and I have found no cure. The >only thing I can do (and this is a major work-around) is change the UID of >the user, then blacklist that UID. > >It seems to me that if I can find where this sort of information is stored for >X, I could clear it out... but I cannot find it anywhere... I thought for >sure that it would be in /tmp or in my home directory, but it is not. > >Could someone please help? > >Thank you. > >Chris >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > Is it that once a user is refused login, they can never login thereafter, or does the problem come and go on a per-user basis even tho they change nothing? Somesort of disk-space problem? Would you happen to have diskquotas enforced? Cheers, Terry. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
