jdb invalid password

[Kenneth J. Goldman]

I just installed the JDE with JDK 1.2.1.  Everything works
very well, except the debugger. When starting the jdb, I
get the error:

Initializing jdb...
Failed accessing debugging session on <machine name>: invalid password

This happens even when invoking the debugger from bash directly.

I understand there is a -password option to jdb and that starting
the interpreter with -Xdebug is supposed to print the password
required, but it doesn't seem to.

Any suggestions?

-Ken