Installing Xdm, the display manager

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## 5. Installing Xdm, the display manager

Since xdm is dynamically linked, 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 included in the XFree86-3.3 source, 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 and modifying `/etc/inittab`. Details about this setup depend on the Linux distribution that you use, so check the documentation provided there.

The xdm binary provided should run with both shadow- and non-shadow password systems.

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