On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Rick Stevens wrote: > > 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 change the hostname, then the initial cookie is no longer valid.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 ." Ok. This works only if invoked before the hostname is changed. xauth generate newname/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 What I've used is more like - (works after the hostname is chaged as well) xauth list | grep 'oldhostname/unix:0' | sed -e 's/oldhostname/newhostname/' | xargs xauth add Satish
