I'd prefer if the Smart People settled on one of these before I did
any changes.

Greg A. Woods writes:
> [ On Mon, August 3, 1998 at 15:31:38 (-0400), Perry E. Metzger wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: use of share vs lib 
> >
> > Brook Milligan writes:
> > > See patch below.  Note that this patch also puts the auth files under
> > > /var/spool/xdm,
> > 
> > > Note that the authfiles could be put in /var/run, but the necessary
> > > subdirectories must be created fresh in the rc scripts since that
> > > directory is cleaned out on bootup.  /var/log is another option, but
> > > it didn't seem particularly appropriate to me as these are not really
> > > logs.
> > 
> > They aren't really "spool files" either. "spool" is really for things
> > like the mail queue, print queue, etc. Perhaps someone could suggest a
> > better directory for them? What are the auth files, precisely?
> 
> How about just "/var/xdm"?  Here's what I've been using:
> 
> DisplayManager.pidFile:		/var/run/xdm.pid
> DisplayManager.errorLogFile:	/var/log/xdm-errors
> DisplayManager.authDir:		/var/xdm/authdir
> ! NOTE: does userAuthDir have to be writable by the user?
> DisplayManager*userAuthDir:	/var/xdm/userauth
> DisplayManager.keyFile:		/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
> DisplayManager.servers:		/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
> DisplayManager*resources:	/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
> DisplayManager._0.setup:	/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
> DisplayManager*setup:		/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
> DisplayManager*startup:		/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup
> DisplayManager*session:		/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
> DisplayManager*reset:		/etc/X11/xdm/Xreset
> DisplayManager*authorize:	true
> DisplayManager*authComplain:	true
> 
> 
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