<To moderator> Haven't seen my message neither Mandrake's confirmation on subject "Mandrake 6.0 .Xauthority" Please, post my last message with more detail or this message. I hope I did not just siply miss the post... </To moderator> I re-checked this, Mandrake confirmed. Problem is missing /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/ when this directory does not exist, xdm(neither kdm) won't use cookies. elmer.