On 13-Oct-2001 Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > I have read the mini-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org and RTFM. Here is what > appears in /var/log/xdm.log > > AUDIT: Fri Oct 12 20:02:22 2001: 359 X: client 3 rejected from local host > Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > xmodmap: unable to open display ':0' >
this sounds like X has been tweaked to not allow local logins or possibly the allowConsole setting was hosed. Look at the files in /etc/X11 and see if anything looks odd.
