Cygwin and XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1

[Terrence Branscombe]

Hi,

I'm brand new to Cygwin (and X in general) and would appreciate some 
help understanding how to set up authentication with 
XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1.  I'm running the latest Cygwin/XFree86 release and 
connecting to an HP AlphaServer running OpenVMS.  The XDM for OpenVMS 
supports the XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 method, but the docs fail to mention 
anything about how the keys are generated.  Does the sysadmin simply 
make up some numbers, or is there a tool for generating a specific key 
format?

First of all, does Cygwin support this method?  If so, I guess the next 
thing I need to know is how and where the key is supposed to be stored 
on the system running Cygwin/XFree.  FInally, what command-line 
parameters are available to pass the key value to the XDM?

Many thanks in advance,

Alder




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