Bret Hughes wrote:
> How can I make the premissions user based rather than host based? xhosts man page
> talks about implementing the user based mechanism but does not say what it is.
When using xauth, a client has to provide a specific authentication
token in order to connect to the X server.
If you use xdm, then xdm will generate the token, pass it to the X
server, and store a copy in the user's ~/.Xauthority file. All X
clients will look in this file (unless overridden by the XAUTHORITY
environment variable) for authentication tokens.
If you wish to run clients on another host, you need to use xauth to
extract the cookie from the local ~/.Xauthority file and insert it
into the remote ~/.Xauthority file.
See the xauth, xdm and Xserver manpages for more details.
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