Rick Stevens said: > The problem is that xdm creates the initial cookie based on the > hostname. All additional auth sessions base off that cookie. If you > change the hostname, then the initial cookie is no longer valid. > > I think the command you used was "xauth generate :0 ." I would wonder if you hack dhclient-script (or any more appropriate place) to do this when the IP changes... Might have some interesting consequences for existing sessions, though. -- William Hooper