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Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?



I may be missing something here. But is xhost + what you want??

Steve Lamb wrote:

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> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 23:34:41 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote:
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> >Steve, you do not want to get rid of xauth ... exactly what problem are
> >you having?
>
>     Why not?  There are other methods of protecting the X port than Xauth.
> Since all machines that I want to do X work are on the local network and on
> private IP space, I can safely limit it to that block of IPs and be done
> with it.
>
>     My problem, exactly, is that Xauth is preventing me form forwarding the
> display from one Linux box to another Linux box, both running Debian.
> Meanwhile, my Winbox with Exceed, which does not use Xauth, allows the
> forwarded displays just fine.
>
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