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RE: X connections refused between hosts (foo/unix:0 syntax)



On 18-Sep-97 David Wright wrote:
>I've obviously missed something in the explanations of .Xauthority files 
>and MIT cookies. I have two Debian 1.3 machines, foo and bar with 
>essentially identical configurations, with few changes from how things 
>install themselves. I start X as user myself on foo. Typing xauth list
>says foo/unix:0  MIT...1  a0b1... and so does xauth list :0 and xauth list 
>unix:0 and xauth foo/unix:0 but not xauth foo:0 which says nothing.

Assuming foo is your local machine, what happens if you do xhost +bar then
telnet to bar, export DISPLAY=foo:0.0 and then run an X program on bar?


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