From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.3 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020523 Description of problem: Running xauth -f /var/run/xauth/<insert random name> list shows something like #ffff##: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 <insert cookie here> when with gdm it should content identical to ~/.Xauthority Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -e gdm kdm 2. init 5 3. Login as a normal user 4. run xterm 5. su - root 6. xauth -f /var/run/xauth/<insert random name> list Actual Results: Something like #ffff##: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 <insert cookie here> Expected Results: hostname:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 <insert cookie here> Additional info:
Wrong package. Thought kdm was uninstall and was running xdm.
Found xdm has the same behavior, tho creates the files in a different directory.
I agree it is low priority. It doesn't seem to affect standard behavior, but it must be there for some reason(or maybe not and you can simplely remove it). You suggest using gdm, but it has it's own bugs, like bloating your path. I know hp knows about, but haven't seen a fix for yet as far as I know. xdm/kdm seem to fix that issue. There are /etc/profile hacks to workaround that tho problem, but keep profile the way it comes packages is preferable since you have to port changes from old configuration files after you upgrade a package a good part of the time.
Closing WONTFIX as I dont see any problem here. If there is a problem, it should be reported and fixed by XFree86.org on xpert mailing list. At a minimum, someone who understands xauthority information a LOT more, needs to be a part of looking at this. Making random uninformed changes to things is never good.