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Re: exmh & Xauthority
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Duquette)
Mon Nov 23 09:30:42 1998
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:37:10 -0500
From: John Duquette <jduquette@icsa.net>
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> > 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"
>
> Just a comment on simplifying the above commands. This just gets rid of all the piping and having to invoke sed.
>
> Use the following instead of: mcookie|...
>
> xauth -q add :0 . `mcookie`
>
> It generates the same thing.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Padraic, without it I'd be doomed to sending the output into the ether.
>
> Now, the question that has to be asked is:
>
> What did I miss to not have this included automatically, or what did RedHat miss when packaging X or xauth?
>
> --
> Colin Cyr (ccyr at home dot com)
>
You didn't miss anything. RedHat ships using xhosts security for X, which is disabled by default. TCL/Tk requires user security for X which means using the magic cookie approach, it just takes a little digging to find the answer.
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John Duquette | "It is harder to preserve than to
Field Security Analyst | obtain liberty"
ICSA Inc. |
| - John C. Calhoun
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