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Bug#75344: xbase-clients: [xauth] needs to way to identify and remove stale xauth cookies



On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:04:38PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:

||  About 6 years ago, you reported (or replied to) a bug in the Debian BTS
||  regarding xauth needing a way to identify/remove stake cookies. Did any
||  of you guys reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? If not, I
||  will close this bug in the next weeks.

A quick look at /usr/bin/startx suggests that the problem is still there:
an existing cookie for a display will be reused even if it is stale.

Ciao.                                                            Vincent.
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