Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 23:16 +0300, Fırat Birlik wrote: > > I experience a problem with hostname manipulation of NetworkManager > > and the X session. DHCP server sends a hostname within the dhcp > > offer, which is different the current one. There is no persistent > > hostname definition within the 'nm-system-settings.conf' as this is a > > default installation. NetworkManager just changes the hostname and as > > new hostname is not authenticated (xhost cookie MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 for > > new hostname does not exist) no new application can be started > > afterwards. > > The solution is *not* to use hostname for local X authentication at all.
Even if that problem didn't exist... What's the benefit of allowing a DHCP server in a foreign network to modify the hostname by default anyways? cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
