Problems for users to CDE login

[Ernesto Rincon]

Hi:

I connect to rp8420 HP-UX 11i server by Reflection X. As root I haven´t any problems to start a CDE session, but the users receive an x-window that indicates that the desktop messaging system could not be started and, to correct the problem, login with Failsafe Session and check the /etc/hosts and the network configuration.
Somebody can help me??
Thanks

[Denver Osborn · Accepted solution]

Since it works for root, have you checked permissions of /etc/hosts to make sure it's readable by the users? 644? How does the hostname resolve and does it resolve properly?

Are there any errors logged in the syslog.log or in /var/log/dt/Xerrors?

-denver

[Ernesto Rincon]

Hi Denver:

Like you recommend, I changed the permissions on /etc/hosts to 644 and now the CDE sessions works for all the users.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Regards.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

Solution was simple but also try to find out how did it happened ? This should help is preventing such problems in future.

HTH,
Devender

[Ernesto Rincon]

We have another HP-UX 11i server with the same case and the only thing that they have in common is they are trusted system...this could be the reason about the permissions on /etc/hosts?

Regards!!