Re: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

[Tuomas Jormola <tjormola@alpha.hut.fi>]

Hi,

> I have a problem finding out how to run programs like Xnest and xmon.
> 
> The manual for Xnest tells me to run "Xnest :1" to start the server then "xterm -display :1" to connect a client to the server. This dose not work as the server has started with some over restrictiv configuration and I have not found out how to turn this off.
I struggled with this same issue a while ago and I discovered that "Xnest
-auth /dev/null :1" would do the trick. I know this is not the right way
to do it but it works so I didn't bother to find out the correct way to 
disable authentication.

Tuomas Jormola <tjormola@cc.hut.fi>