On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > > I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files > > and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with > > essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things > > install themselves. I start X as user myself on foo. Typing xauth list > > says foo/unix:0 MIT...1 a0b1... and so does xauth list :0 and xauth list > > unix:0 and xauth foo/unix:0 but not xauth foo:0 which says nothing. [...] > > Now I telnet to bar and login as myself, ftp back to foo and copy > > .Xauthority to bar. On bar, xauth list and xauth list foo/unix:0 both say > > foo/unix:0 MIT...1 a0b1... but the other forms say nothing. > > What's the timestamp on ~/.Xauthority? I didn't know that startx > created auth files. Authorization in the server is controled by > passing the -auth <file> param to the X server.
Looking at ps output, I could see the -auth option to xinit, so I looked at /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and the problem is the last three lines. Yes, startx does create xauth files, but only with a unix entry. I can't find a way to coerce $display into making a TCP entry instead so I've modified startx to do this: serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority" mcookie=`mcookie` xauth add $display . $mcookie xauth add `hostname`.`dnsdomainname`$display . $mcookie xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs I don't think I should have to modify anything in /usr, even though startx says ironically: # # Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions. # Who'd think of reading the files in a bin/ directory? I think I'll file a bug report against xbase. > #!/bin/bash Thanks for the script. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
