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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: Remote client works in X11, not NeWS - auth problem?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.194129.29862@fwi.uva.nl>
- Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl
- Nntp-Posting-Host: adam.fwi.uva.nl
- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- References: <1992Aug28.175756.5674@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:41:29 GMT
- Lines: 119
-
- weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Weinrich) writes:
-
- >I have a problem that I *think* is an XNeWS authorization problem.
- >I'm hoping someone has seen this before.
-
- >If I run xauth, it responds:
- > Using authority file /home/kbw/.Xauthority
- > xauth>
- >I type:
- > list
- >it responds:
- > #ffff##: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 debf8cd. . .
- >That first field looks mangled (it should say something about helios),
- >but the servers seem to accept it.
-
- This is the entry that is generated by news. It is usually in the
- file .xnews.$DISPLAY or some such.
- This entry is a so called ``wild card'' entry (matches any DISPLAY).
- I wrote a script that will take a #ffff## entry from
- a .xnews.$DISPLAY and put a hostname/unix:0 and hostname:0 in
- your .Xauthority file. Run it at the start of your ~/.xinitrc or
- after mkcookie in the openwin startup script. Xnews will need
- the #ffff## entry, so you better leave the mkcookie stuff alone.
-
- Shar file with ``openwinauthmerge'' appended.
-
- Casper
-
- #! /bin/sh
- # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then unpack
- # it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file". To overwrite existing
- # files, type "sh file -c". You can also feed this as standard input via
- # unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g.. If this archive is complete, you
- # will see the following message at the end:
- # "End of shell archive."
- # Contents: openwinauthmerge
- # Wrapped by casper@fwi.uva.nl on Fri Aug 28 21:38:58 1992
- PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH
- if test -f 'openwinauthmerge' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then
- echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'openwinauthmerge'\"
- else
- echo shar: Extracting \"'openwinauthmerge'\" \(1922 characters\)
- sed "s/^X//" >'openwinauthmerge' <<'END_OF_FILE'
- X#!/bin/sh
- X#
- X# Merge the openwin ``wildcard'' authority cookie with the user's
- X# ~/.Xauthority file. Don't add the wild card to ~/.Xauthority as
- X# X clients will prefer the explicit entries that might exist from
- X# previous X sessions and we also might want to be able to run multiple
- X# X sessions on multiple displays at the same time.
- X#
- X# This programs should be the first to run in ~/.xinitrc.
- X# E.g.,
- X# openwinauthmerge
- X# XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority; export XAUTHORITY
- X#
- X# Casper Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl)
- X#
- X
- X
- Xif [ "$DISPLAY" = "" ]
- Xthen
- X echo '$DISPLAY not set.' 1>&2
- X exit 1
- Xfi
- XHOST=`hostname`
- XDISP=`expr $DISPLAY : '.*\(:[0-9]*\)\.*'`
- XNEWSAUTH=$HOME/.xnews.$HOST$DISP
- XXAUTH=$HOME/.Xauthority
- Xif [ ! -r "$NEWSAUTH" ]
- Xthen
- X echo "Can't read NeWS authority file." 1>&2
- X exit 1
- Xfi
- X
- X
- X# Does your xauth has the R4/openwin 2 bug that destroys hex numbers containing
- X# a-f or A-F?
- Xxauth -q -f $XAUTH add ${HOST}${DISP} . abcd
- Xval=`set \`xauth -i -q -f $XAUTH list ${HOST}${DISP}\`; echo $3`
- Xif [ "$val" != abcd ]
- Xthen
- X # has bug, must use numerical values.
- X # A numerical x auth entry looks like:
- X # type length [ address ] length [ number ] length name length cookie
- X #
- X # the address and number field are non existant if the length field are 0
- X #
- X # Merging (we don't want to pass the cookie as argument)
- X #
- X # TCP/IP socket
- X xauth -q -f $XAUTH add ${HOST}${DISP} . 00
- X # Unix socket
- X xauth -q -f $XAUTH add ${DISP} . 00
- X (
- X xauth -i -q -f $NEWSAUTH nlist 2>/dev/null
- X xauth -i -q -f $XAUTH nlist ${HOST}${DISP} ${DISP}
- X ) | awk 'NR == 1 { cookie = " " $4 " " $5 " " $6 " " $7 }
- X NR > 1 { print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5 cookie }' |
- X xauth -q -f $XAUTH nmerge -
- Xelse
- X # It's so easy:
- X xauth -i -q -f $NEWSAUTH list 2> /dev/null|
- X awk '{ print "add '${HOST}${DISP}' " $2 " " $3;
- X print "add '${DISP}' " $2 " " $3 }' |
- X xauth -q -f $XAUTH
- Xfi
- END_OF_FILE
- if test 1922 -ne `wc -c <'openwinauthmerge'`; then
- echo shar: \"'openwinauthmerge'\" unpacked with wrong size!
- fi
- chmod +x 'openwinauthmerge'
- # end of 'openwinauthmerge'
- fi
- echo shar: End of shell archive.
- exit 0
- --
- | Casper H.S. Dik
- | casper@fwi.uva.nl
-