On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:07:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is likely an X  Authentication problem.
> The X server is running on the thin client, but processes that run on 
> the thin client are not authorized to access the display.  It is because
> the X session has been authenticated via the display manager running 
> back on the ltsp server.
> The quick and dirty way to get around this is to set:
>      DISABLE_ACCESS_CONTROL = Y
> in the lts.conf file.
> I'm looking for a better way to resolve this problem that doesn't open 
> up the workstation display to the world.
> It's one of those things that will probably only take an hour or so to 
> figure out.  The big problem is finding that hour.

I should think something like this should do it:

The users logs in via his thinclient to his LTSP server. This then needs
to be run:

xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh thinclient xauth merge -

After that starting localapps should in theory work, but I have no way
of verifying if this works.

-- 
Anders
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