[aclug-L] Re: bad cookie

["gLaNDix" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

duh....  that's what i meant!  i couldn't test it, due to winmodem
restrictions, and tho't it was xauth...   my bad! : ^ )

gLaNDix

-----Original Message-----
From: Clint A. Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 9:13 AM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: bad cookie


>I never used xauth I've always used xhost, so
>xhost + 'hostname'
>will allow anyone logged into your machine, to display x apps on your
>X screen. If you don't have more than user on you machine at a time, this
>is
>fine.
>
>without out the hostname anyone from any machine can display stuff on your
>X session, which doens't matter unless your connected to other machines.
>
>
>
>On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Jeff wrote:
>
>> I believe you want something like:
>>
>> [phrostie@whatever]$ su root
>> xxxx
>> [root@whatever]$ xauth add localhost:0 . [[something]]
>>
>>
>> but I don't use xauth (probably should), but I don't have to, so I
>> haven't learned this.  Poke around the xauth and X server manpages.
>>
>> -jeff
>> --
>> Linux ... find out what you've been missing while
>>           you've been rebooting Windows NT. --Infoworld
>>
>>
>
>Clint Brubakken
>Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
>Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group
>Wichita, KS
>cabrubak@xxxxxxx
>---
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>
>  -- Chris DiBona on neo-renassaince Homo Heileinias Eric S. Raymond. (Open
>Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
>
>