Sorry, boring technical question coming.... I'm trying to make sense of authentication in X, specifically with regard to load balancing of Xclients across a small set of workstations. Its mostly just out of curiosity but I might eventually apply it for real.
So far I've managed to work out that XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 is where I want to be, but how do I get there? If I do an xauth list I get an XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 cookie and a MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 for both addresses on my machine and both for TCP and unix sockets (2x2x2=8 cookies!). Since XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 seems far superior to MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1, how do I only get the former type of cookie on my system? Will it have dire consequences for some of my apps (no legacy binaries) if I manage to only get the former? Note that just to confuse matters further I'm using kdm for logging in! ...and if anyone has any recommendation for load-balancing tools suitable for end-user programs I'd love to hear about them - everything I've looked at so far is very services oriented and doesn't really want to deal with changing privileges/uids. TIA Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
