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- From: vdp@mayo.edu (Vinayak Dutt)
- Subject: xauth(1) and mkcookie of Openwindows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.145549.19824@bmw.mayo.edu>
- Keywords: xauth, magic-cookie, mkcookie
- Sender: newsman@bmw.mayo.edu (/home/bmw/usenet)
- Reply-To: vdp@mayo.edu
- Organization: Mayo Foundation/Mayo Graduate School :Rochester, MN
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:55:49 GMT
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- I was trying to change the Xauthority file from the default $HOME/.Xauthority
- to one specified by env variable XAUTHORITY when I started having problems
- related to authorization to display. So I would like to know more about Xauthority
- in Openwindows. There is the standard xauth(1) of X11 distribution which deals with
- file .Xauthority or one specified by env variable XAUTHORITY and there is this
- Openwindows program mkcookie which creates the authorization file named
- .xnews.MACHINE_NAME:0 in HOME directory. I notice is that this is the file used
- with -auth options to Xserver - xnews. So could some one tell me what are the roles
- of these two different authorization files: .Xauthority and .xnews.**:0 ? And how can
- I change the name of Xauthority file via the env. variable XAUTHORITY without getting
- in trouble with "permission denied" (authorization problems) ???
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- thanks
-
- vinayak dutt
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- vinayak dutt
- Medical Sciences Building (2) Mayo Clinic
- Rochester MN 55905
- e-mail: vdp@mayo.edu
- FAX: 507-284-4705
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