GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 689370
GDM doesn't react well to hostname changes at startup
Last modified: 2012-11-30 18:07:43 UTC
Right now if a user's system changes hostname at just the right time, then the slave will get denied access to the X server. The failure is because the X server checks to see if the hostname matches the local hostname before accepting the entry.
Created attachment 230316 [details] [review] access-file: don't use FamilyLocal for auth cookie FamilyLocal is really fragile to hostname changes, so avoid using it when creating the initial auth cookie for establishing access to the X server for the slave. This commit changes the Xauthority entry to use FamilyWild which makes the address of the entry unimportant.
Attachment 230316 [details] pushed as 0fccf4e - access-file: don't use FamilyLocal for auth cookie