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- From: bobb@agora.rain.com (Bob Beauchemin)
- Subject: Xauthority file
- Message-ID: <BtpxEv.47n@agora.rain.com>
- Sender: bobb@agora.rain.com (Bob Beauchemin)
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:01:39 GMT
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- I'm probably missing something obvious but I have a question about the
- .Xauthority file used for securing X servers.
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- If XDM creates the .Xauthority file in the user's home directory at
- login time, then this file exists on the machine that runs XDM (call this
- Host A). The .Xauthority file is only readable by the user.
- Now, that user wishes to rlogin to another machine (Host B) and run
- program FOO. The Xau library is linked with program FOO on Host B. The FOO
- program is supposed to read the magic cookie from the .Xauthority file and
- present it to the server for verification.
- But the FOO program (Host B) is using Xau, which does fread(). The
- .Xauthority file is on Host A. How is this accomplished without the use of
- NFS? Or is NFS a strict requirement?
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- Bob Beauchemin
- bobb@agora.rain.com
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