Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-05 Thread Noam Meltzer
Ira, Have you tried the "FreeNX" project? It gives superior performance over VNC & supports multi-sessions and/or multi-users. (which VNC does not) It is linked with the standard X libraries on your system (X.org in RHEL4/5 case) so I suspect it should provide all the X extensions you require.

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-03 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 14:40 +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > (and as I said - "xhost > +" works but is too permissive) Did you look into the options which xhost provides (man xhost)? Maybe there is an option which provides you with the right security limitations?

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-03 Thread Ira Abramov
> > On Feb 3, 2008 11:15 AM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > VNC on Windows behaves differently than on Linux. On Linux, it > > > opens its own unique X server, and then exports its display using > > > the VNC protocol. On Windows, VNC server exports the main Windows > > >

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-03 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Feb 3, 2008 12:49 PM, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2008 11:15 AM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > VNC on Windows behaves differently than on Linux. On Linux, it opens its > > own unique X server, and then exports its display using the VNC > > protoco

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-03 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Feb 3, 2008 11:15 AM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VNC on Windows behaves differently than on Linux. On Linux, it opens its > own unique X server, and then exports its display using the VNC > protocol. On Windows, VNC server exports the main Windows display. Nowadays, you have

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: Time to go test their local windows Xserver and see what it DOES support. VNC on Windows behaves differently than on Linux. On Linux, it opens its own unique X server, and then exports its display using the VNC protocol. On Windows, VNC server exports the main Windows di

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-03 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sun, 03 Feb: > Ira Abramov wrote: > >> is the RHEL-supplied Xvnc ignoring MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE because of >> configuration, or something missing at compile time? > I believe they ignore it because their X server doesn't support it. damn... I suspected that was

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: is the RHEL-supplied Xvnc ignoring MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE because of configuration, or something missing at compile time? I believe they ignore it because their X server doesn't support it. A VNC server is also an X server, which means that you are NOT using a X.org or XFree86 ba

Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?

2008-02-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On Feb 2, 2008 11:49 PM, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > howdie gang! > > I have two clients with a similar problem: the run a job dispatcher that > sends their requests to a free node in a compute cluster to run a > compilation or simulation of the system. Some of those jobs are supposed