Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 03:44:51AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 05:44:19PM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> > Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > > although I don't understand what it is doing, it is working quite good now.
> >
> > X11 magic cookies are usually generated when a user logs in, XDM
> > copies them to the ~user/.Xauthority file which is supposed to
> > be readable only by the user. The server also knows the cookie's
> > value.
> >
> > The idea is that each X11 client which connected to the X server
> > proves that he can read your .Xauthority file by sending the cookie (or
> > some variation on it, so people can't sniff it from the net).
> > Since the cookie is (hopefully) very random there is very little
> > chance that an imposter will be able to guess it.
>
> Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy
> the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to
> display a remote client on my home station, for example). Thsi I can do with
> xauth -extract and -merge (or -add or whatever it is), right?
How about using vnc on ssh? Then you wouldn't have to deal with xauth.
I believe there are some examples in the ssh documentation.
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