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- From: jain@spectra.com (Sadhana Jain)
- Subject: Re: xauth !!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.004107.15345@spectra.com>
- Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
- References: <1992Nov12.183322.4172@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 00:41:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.183322.4172@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> sm86+@procyon.weh.andrew.cmu.edu (Stefan Monnier) writes:
- >
- >I can't seem to find how xauth works.
- >I read the man page and experimented with it,
- >but still couldn't find how to use it: I can't give access to
- >another machine, I'm not sure someone else on my machine won't
- >be able to use 'my' X server, ...
-
- Did you try the following command:
- xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh other xauth merge -
-
- Where DISPLAY is where your server is running. And other is the machine you
- want to give access to. sometimes rsh doesn't work but remsh does. Depends
- on which machine you are using. If you are using X11r5 server and using
- XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 scheme instead of MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1, I have found that
- it doesn't work. xauth copies .Xauthority file from your account to the
- same account on the other machine. After executing the above command, make
- sure that the .Xauthority file on the other machine gets updated/created.
- For MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 scheme, it works just fine.
- >
- >Copuld anyone give me any indications. I fell it's really not so hard.
- >I must just be missing a 'start idea' !
- >
- >Thanks
- >
- >
-
- Hope this helps.
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