COMMAND

    .Xauthority (mandrake)

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    Mandrake 6.0

PROBLEM

    Elmer Joandi found following.  Looks like Mandrake 6.0 wont create
    .Xauthority.   After  installing  Mandrake  and  assuming it to be
    RH60 clone  and found  after some  time that  there is  just plain
    host authentication and that is quite wide-open.

SOLUTION

    Elmer solved the problem with

        echo remove $DISPLAY | xauth ;
        echo generate $DISPLAY | xauth ;

    in  /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc which is probably incorrect in  detail.

    On a mandrake the preferred way to launch your X server is to  use
    startx (or boot via runlevel=5).