Hello,

Trying to securing my X server beyond my pf conf, and sorry if I do
again the compliments to the quality of the X engineering (well beyond
OpenBSD devs effort, at X origins).

'man X' says:

ACCESS CONTROL
       
       An X server can use several types of access control. Mechanisms
       provided in Release 7 are: 
       Host Access           Simple host-based access control. 
       MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1    Shared plain-text "cookies". 
       XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1   Secure DES based private-keys. 
       SUN-DES-1             Based on Sun's secure rpc system, etc


Launching:
# xauth -f .XauthorityDan generate :0.0 HOST ACCESS         

I get the following error about the erroneous protocol name:

SecurityBadAuthorizationProtocol  (invalid authorization name or data)
xauth: (argv):1:  couldn't generate authorization

Indeed, I grasped that "Host Access" is wrong in man.

So I'm here to ask the protocol token to pass to xauth to use
host access control mechanism.

Thanks, appreciated.


-- Daniele Bonini

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