Re: xauth

[Nick Dyer <njd27@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Seth R Arnold said:
> > On a whim I added a .rhosts file with the one word "amidala" in it. No
> > change.
> 
> If you want to grant global access for another machine to use your display,
> use the xhost command:  xhost amidala

This is a bit of a security hole though.

A good way to cope with X authentication is to use ssh; this not
only sets up everything to do with magic cookies automagically but
as a side effect encrypts your entire X session!

Nick

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