4 Installing Xdm, the display manager

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Since xdm is dynamically linked against -lcrypt, there's no issue on export restriction outside US for this binary distribution of xdm: it does not contain the DES encryption code. So it's now included in the bin package.

However the file xc/lib/Xdmcp/WrapHelp.c is not available in France (where the binary distribution is built) so support for XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 is not included here. You'll have to get WrapHelp.c and rebuild xdm after having set HasXdmAuth in xf86site.def.

The file is available within the US; for details see ftp.x.org:/pub/R6/xdm-auth/README .

To start the display manager, log in as root on the console and type: ``xdm -nodaemon''.

You can start xdm automatically on bootup by disabling the console getty adding the following code to /etc/rc.local:

  if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
    echo -n ' xdm'; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
  fi

To disable the console getty, change ``on'' to ``off'' in the console entry in /etc/ttys:

 ttyv0  "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc      off secure

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