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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!nec-gw!nec-tyo!wnoc-tyo-news!scslwide!wsgw!wsservra!daemon
  2. From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu
  3. Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
  4. Subject: Re: xauth !!
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.192613.10831@sm.sony.co.jp>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 19:26:13 GMT
  7. Sender: daemon@sm.sony.co.jp (The devil himself)
  8. Distribution: fj
  9. Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
  10. Lines: 14
  11. Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
  12.  
  13. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 13:17:35 EST
  14. Message-Id: <9211171817.AA27569@alex.lcs.mit.edu>
  15. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  16. In-Reply-To: <1992Nov12.183322.4172@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
  17.  
  18. >I can't seem to find how xauth works.
  19. >...I'm not sure someone else on my machine won't
  20. >be able to use 'my' X server, ...
  21.  
  22. Try reading the XSecurity(1) manual page for more of an overview
  23. of how X Window System security works.
  24.  
  25.  < Stephen
  26.    MIT X Consortium
  27.