Problem with DHCP, /etc/hosts and GNOME

[William Hooper]

Rick Stevens said:
> 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 change the hostname, then the initial cookie is no longer valid.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 ."

I would wonder if you hack dhclient-script (or any more appropriate place)
to do this when the IP changes...  Might have some interesting
consequences for existing sessions, though.

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William Hooper