Re: exporting xauth

[lee.bradshaw@mindspring.com (Lee Bradshaw)]

"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> writes:

> After the last round of questions & posts on the topic, I've found
> that I can stably export xauthority by
> 
> xauth list $DISPLAY
> 
> and pasting from MIT on to
> 
> xauth add $DISPLAY <pastehere>
>
> is there a way to pass this information automatically?
> particularly, it doesn't pass to su, and I'd also like to pass it to
> telnet when connecting to remote machines

I've seen lots of messages about using ssh.  The xauth man page has the
command:

  xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -

This works fine for me, although I change $DISPLAY to machine:0.  On my
local machine the DISPLAY is just :0, so this doesn't get extracted or
merged (I don't know which) in a usable form for the remote machine.

Speaking of ssh, is deity supposed to make it easier to use multiple
ftp sites?  Currently pgp-us is listed as obsolete/local by dselect.
Or am I running the update incorrectly?  I've been clearing the list of
available packages when dselect suggested I do so.

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