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Re: exmh & Xauthority
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Sun Nov 22 19:31:12 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:27:20 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Padraic Renaghan wrote:
>
> On 22 November 1998 at 0:11, Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net> wrote:
> > OK, somebody explain to me in plain english, what am I supposed
> > to do with exmh and the Xauthority problem?
>
> Well I won't claim to understand exactly what the following does, but it does work, and does get exmh and other apps to stop complaining about authority problems. It also seems to be key to running X sessions on remote machines.
>
> in my startx file (/usr/X11R6/bin) add the following line directly after the initial comment:
> mcookie|sed -e 's/^/add :0 . /'|xauth -q
>
> then in that same file, change the last line of the file (or whatever line calls xinit) to:
> xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs -auth "$HOME/.Xauthority"
Thanks! You are a genius. It works. Not only that, but I am
sure that your solution is the proper one from a security point
of view as it sets the magic cookie in the .Xauthority file.
I have 2,001 questions about exhm, but will wait until I use it
a few days before I ask any.
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