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List: freedesktop-xorg
Subject: Re: xauth clarifications
From: Sylvain Leroux <sylvain () chicoree ! fr>
Date: 2018-02-26 15:08:10
Message-ID: dea174f4-e128-dd03-f473-ee664c1d54db () chicoree ! fr
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On 02/26/2018 03:26 PM, Michal Srb wrote:
> On pondělí 26. února 2018 15:21:17 CET Sylvain Leroux wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> Thanks to your answer and by studying the /usr/bin/startx script
>> on my system, things are much more clear now.
>>
>> On 02/22/2018 05:16 PM, Michal Srb wrote:
>>>> 3) Are Xorg and Xephyr handling xauth the same way?
>>>> ================================================ I'm using
>>>> both a genuine Xorg server and Xephyr.
>>>>
>>>> Are both of them consistent in their way to handle xauth
>>>> authorizations?
>>>
>>> I think yes.
>>
>> I can't see a "-auth" option in the Xephyr man page. So, do you
>> you know against what it checks incoming client credentials? I
>> suspect it will use the process owner's ~/.Xauthority file but
>> I'm not sure...
>
> The manual page of Xephyr says "The server accepts all the standard
> options of Xserver(1) and the following additional options". And
> manual page of Xserver has the "-auth" option.
>
> Also Xephyr -help shows the -auth option.
>
> If the -aith is not set, it won't use any auth file and let any
> client in.
>
> Michal
>
Thanks a lot Michal for having pointed that!
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