[ale] Cannot log in from kdm

[Jim Philips]

On Friday 11 March 2005 11:34 am, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> I have done some upgrades to my mandrake 10.1 system lately, though no
> changes to my personal account.  Now, when I try to log in via kdm I
> get the kdm screen back faily quickly.  /var/log/kdm.log has a bunch
> of lines like this:
>
> AUDIT: Fri Mar 11 11:27:51 2005: 5679 X: client 2 rejected from local host
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> AUDIT: Fri Mar 11 11:27:51 2005: 5679 X: client 2 rejected from local host
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
>
> I can't find any other evidence of problems, so I'm guessing this is
> it.  Anyone know what it is and how to fix it?

It sounds like the KDM configs have bad information in them. You can create 
new config settings by running:

genkdmconfig --no-old

But you may want to look at all the possible arguments for that program by 
running:

genkdmconfig --help