Re: [clug-talk] source of xdm & .Xauthority

[Pete]

I gonna have to figure out what this all means, (X stuff is pretty new for me) One thing catched my eye when I was reading man xauth By default, xauth will use the  file specified  by  the XAUTHORITY environment variable or .Xauthority in the user's home directory. And that is the thing that I wanna change / use. (change .Xauthority in the user's home directory) (use XAUTHORITY environment variable) More on this tomorrow. Peter s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Pete: What is the purpose of the var XAUTHORITY? (0) keeling /home/keeling_ echo $XAUTHORITY /home/keeling/.Xauthority And is there a known way to put that .Xauthority file NOT in /home/user ? $ xauth list # if you already have keys, skip next $ xauth generate . # perform if you have no auth file $ xauth nextract keeling.xa $DISPLAY # should be the only step needed. Switch to client machine. $ export DISPLAY=$HOSTIP:0.0 # $HOSTIP == remote IP address/`hostname -f` $ xauth nmerge $HOSTIP:~keeling/keeling.xa

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