Problem with DHCP, /etc/hosts and GNOME

[Rick Stevens]

William Hooper wrote:
> 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change the hostname, then the initial cookie is no longer valid.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.

Well, "xauth merge" might help in that sort of script.  I suggest that,
as your machine just became "someone else" if the hostname changes.

I suppose I could tinker around this weekend and see what I come up
with as to a work-around.
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