Re: X11forwarding et .Xauthority

2008-01-30 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le mar 29 jan 2008 17:10:15 CET, DUFRESNE, Mathias \(STERIA\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Le problème c'est que le parc est pour le moins hétérogène, ssh n'est pas toujours installé, quand à xauth, faut pas réver. On n'a quasiment aucun GNU/Linux (j'en ai croisé un sur un cluster, je crois

RE: X11forwarding et .Xauthority

2008-01-29 Thread DUFRESNE, Mathias (STERIA)
-Original Message- From: Frédéric BOITEUX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: mardi 29 janvier 2008 16:30 To: debian-user-french@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: X11forwarding et .Xauthority Le mar 29 jan 2008 16:18:29 CET, DUFRESNE, Mathias \(STERIA\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Bonjour à

Re: X11forwarding et .Xauthority

2008-01-29 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le mar 29 jan 2008 16:18:29 CET, DUFRESNE, Mathias \(STERIA\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Bonjour à tous, Je cherche le moyen de lancer X de manière à ce qu'il accepte d'afficher des applications graphiques provenant d'autres systèmes, mais pour cela il me faut copier mon .Xauthority

X11forwarding et .Xauthority

2008-01-29 Thread DUFRESNE, Mathias (STERIA)
Bonjour à tous, Je cherche le moyen de lancer X de manière à ce qu'il accepte d'afficher des applications graphiques provenant d'autres systèmes, mais pour cela il me faut copier mon .Xauthority un peu partout, ce qui n'est pas toujours très pratique. Je cherche un moyen de désactiver la

X11forwarding et .Xauthority

2008-01-29 Thread DUFRESNE, Mathias (STERIA)
Re, Je me réponds pour la solution de facilité qui consiste à supprimer la vérification du .Xauthority, il suffit de lancer : xhost + pour que Xorg accepte n'importe quelle application de n'importe quelle machine. Si vous avez une meilleure idée, je reste prenneur : ) Mathias

Contenu de .Xauthority

2006-01-22 Thread Michel Grentzinger
Bonjour, En essayant vainement d'obtenir une connection X11 avec Putty sur mon serveur, je me suis rendu compte que les fichiers $HOME/.Xauthority étaient remplis de lignes étranges... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ xauth list lns-bzn-28-82-254-214-58.adsl.proxad.net:1 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 fee7708

.Xauthority wird sporadisch inhaltlich geloescht

2005-10-18 Thread Dirk Salva
Hi Leute, so alle paar Tage habe ich das Problem, daß der Inhalt der .Xauthority meines Users nicht mehr vorhanden ist. Bemerken tue ich das, weil beim ssh -L zu einem anderen Rechner eine Fehlermeldung kommt. Mache ich dann xauth add $DISPLAY . $(mcookie) ist alles wieder in Ordnung. Die Frage

.Xauthority wird ständig gelöscht

2005-09-21 Thread Dirk Salva
Hi Leute, alle paar Tage ist die Datei .Xauthority von meinem User nur noch 0 Byte groß. Ich bemerke das allerdings erst daran, daß die entsprechende Fehlermeldung bei einer ssh-Verbindung auftaucht. Hat vielleicht jemand eine Idee, woran das liegen könnte? Debian Sarge 64-Bit Version. ciao

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users [SOLUTION]

2005-08-20 Thread Philippe Grenard
well, i had some problems with this .Xauthority, but not the same way : when logged in, root couldn't open X-based applications... After upgrading to Debian Etch/Testing, I had exactly the same problem. Solution: As user who is running X: xauth list # if you

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-19 Thread Haines Brown
momentarily, but I'm thrown back to the console. The startx messages only say that .Xauthority is being created. However, no .Xauthority shows up in the user's home directory. Did you put the user(s) in the group video? Cláudio, No, because /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl are owned by root:root

Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Haines Brown
say that .Xauthority is being created. However, no .Xauthority shows up in the user's home directory. In ~/Xsession-errors, I get: Xsession: X session started for user at ... open: Permission denied I assume the lack of permission is the result of their being no .Xauthority file actually

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: xauth: creating new authority file /home/user/.Xauthority /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 132: cannot create temporary file for here document: Permission denied This sort of error can be caused by bad permissions on /tmp

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi! well, i had some problems with this .Xauthority, but not the same way : when logged in, root couldn't open X-based applications... after a lot of googling, i found something in the FAQ of xfree86-common http://darbujan.fzu.cz/cgi-bin/dwww?type=text/plainlocation=/usr/share/doc/xfree86-common

Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Haines Brown
say that .Xauthority is being created. However, no .Xauthority shows up in the user's home directory. In ~/Xsession-errors, I get: Xsession: X session started for brownh at ... open: Permission denied I assume the lack of permission is the result of their being no .Xauthority file actually

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
, but I'm thrown back to the console. The startx messages only say that .Xauthority is being created. However, no .Xauthority shows up in the user's home directory. Did you put the user(s) in the group video? []'s Cláudio

Xauthority?

2005-07-31 Thread Eren Metin Elci
Hi ich habe das probleme wenn ich über XDM mich einlogge als User, dass ich dann über su keine grapischen Programme starten kann... Ich bekomme folgendes Fehlermeldung: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (ethereal:2713): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open

Re: Xauthority?

2005-07-31 Thread Tilo Schwarz
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:56:36 +0200, Eren Metin Elci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ich habe das probleme wenn ich über XDM mich einlogge als User, dass ich dann über su keine grapischen Programme starten kann... Ich bekomme Nimm sux (statt su). Viele Grüße, Tilo -- Haeufig gestellte

Re: Xauthority?

2005-07-31 Thread Eren Metin Elci
Danke geht... Habe es eimal laufen lassen. Darauf hin hat es ein neues .Xauthority file angelegt und jetzt kann ich auch über su alles.. Danke Grüße Eren -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail

.Xauthority et gdm

2005-04-23 Thread mahashakti89
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour ! J'utilise gdm comme manager de sessions, marche bien, thèmable à souhait mais j'ai toujours ce petit problème , je n'ai pas de fichier /home/toto/.Xauthority et c'est bien embètant ... avec wdm ou kdm pas de problèmes le fichier en

Re: Xauthority

2005-03-23 Thread hugo
alors le message. BOHOR yam $ startx xauth: /home/yam/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored xauth: error in locking authority file /home/yam/.Xauthority xauth: error in locking authority file /home/yam/.Xauthority xauth: error in locking authority file /home/yam/.Xauthority X

Xauthority

2005-03-22 Thread Jean Le Mer
xauth: /home/yam/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored xauth: error in locking authority file /home/yam/.Xauthority xauth: error in locking authority file /home/yam/.Xauthority xauth: error in locking authority file /home/yam/.Xauthority X: user not authorized to run the X server

Re: Xauthority

2005-03-22 Thread Leopold BAILLY
Jean Le Mer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bonjour, J'ai une debian testing et j'aimerais y avoir accès depuis windows. Aussi j'ai installé ou putty ou terraterm qui fonctionnent bien tous les 2. Ils me renvoient bien mon terminal sous debian. Le problème est quand je veux ouvrir une fenêtre X.

ja już nie moge....Xauthority i te rzeczy....

2004-06-02 Thread samur
Hej! Zainstalowałem sobie wdm i teraz jak wpisuje tam login i pass to znika wdm i zaraz sie pojawia znowu...dodalem uzytkownika adduser-em i wtedy działa...Co jest nie tak i JAK zrobić w końcu żeby zwykły użytkownik a nie tylko root mógł uruchamiać serwer X i programy korzystające z niego Bo

[HS] X11 forwarding et ... ?.Xauthority?

2004-01-29 Thread Frdrick Amorison
Bonjour, J'utilise mon poste de travail sous Linux pour me connecter avec ssh sur un serveur Solaris. Jusque là tout va bien...tant que je me contente du texte, Dès que je veux faire du X11 forwarding cela se complique. Lorsque j'utilise un terminal (ie: gnome-terminal) avec les droits de

Re: [HS] X11 forwarding et ... ?.Xauthority?

2004-01-29 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Frédérick Amorison wrote: Bonjour, J'utilise mon poste de travail sous Linux pour me connecter avec ssh sur un serveur Solaris. Jusque là tout va bien...tant que je me contente du texte, Dès que je veux faire du X11 forwarding cela se complique. Lorsque j'utilise un terminal (ie:

Re: [HS] X11 forwarding et ... ?.Xauthority?

2004-01-29 Thread Frédéric Bothamy
* Frédérick Amorison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-29 12:29] : Bonjour, J'utilise mon poste de travail sous Linux pour me connecter avec ssh sur un serveur Solaris. Jusque là tout va bien...tant que je me contente du texte, Dès que je veux faire du X11 forwarding cela se complique. Lorsque

Re: [HS] X11 forwarding et ... ?.Xauthority?

2004-01-29 Thread ns
Archives de la liste: xhost + ou alors 'ssh -X -lusername serveur' ( avec X majuscule) mais il faut au préalable activer le X11 forwarding (je ne sais plus ou) voilà s.

Re: [HS] X11 forwarding et ... ?.Xauthority?

2004-01-29 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 29/01/2004, ns disait Archives de la liste: xhost + ou alors 'ssh -X -lusername serveur' ( avec X majuscule) mais il faut au préalable activer le X11 forwarding (je ne sais plus ou) /etc/ssh/ssh_config côté client *et* /etc/ssh/shhsd_config côté serveur. -- Erwan

Re: [HS] X11 forwarding et ... ?.Xauthority?

2004-01-29 Thread Frédérick Amorison
Frédéric Bothamy wrote: * Peut-être que la doc du Petit guide d'exécution à distance des applications X (http://www.traduc.org/docs/HOWTO/vf/Remote-X-Apps.html) sera plus clair que les pages de manuel (notamment les paragraphe 6.2 et 6.3 sur xauth et sur ssh). Exactement ce qu'il me

Re: [HS] X11 forwarding et ... ?.Xauthority?

2004-01-29 Thread François TOURDE
Le 12446ième jour après Epoch, Frédérick Amorison écrivait: Maintenant une autre question: Pour quelle raison, sous débian (je suis sous sarge), le répertoire /usr/X11R6/bin n'est-il accessible qu'à root? Euh... ça doit être une erreur. Chez moi il est accessible par tout le monde. Et tant

Xauthority

2003-11-03 Thread Martin Bammer
Hi Leute! Auf einem Rechner habe ich Knoppix 3.3 installiert und habe nun das Problem, das beim User knoppix das kdesu nicht funktioniert. Fehlermeldung: kdesu(kdelibs): WARNING: No X authentication info set for display :0 Ich habe festgestellt, das die Datei .Xauthority nicht existiert. Die

Re: Xauthority

2003-11-03 Thread Gernot Sadlo
festgestellt, das die Datei .Xauthority nicht existiert. Die sollte nach dem Anmelden mit dem KDM erstellt werden. Nun habe ich versucht die Datei händisch zu erstellen: xauth generate :0 . Das geht auch nicht! Ich bekomme die Fehlermeldung: xauth: (argv):1: couldn't query Security

wer erzeugt .Xauthority file ?

2003-01-14 Thread Joerg Hartmann
Hallo, bei jedem Start des X-Servers durch einen User wird offensichtlich das .Xauthority-File für eben diesen User neu erzeugt., d.h. es werden neue Keys erzeugt. Nachdem ich nun eine ganze Weile erfolglos im System nach der Stelle bzw. dem Prozess gesucht habe der das tut, nun also die Frage

Re: wer erzeugt .Xauthority file ?

2003-01-14 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:40:39PM +0100, Joerg Hartmann wrote: bei jedem Start des X-Servers durch einen User wird offensichtlich das .Xauthority-File für eben diesen User neu erzeugt., d.h. es werden neue Keys erzeugt. Nachdem ich nun eine ganze Weile erfolglos im System nach der Stelle bzw

Re: xauthority and root

2002-04-23 Thread Andy Saxena
AM Subject: Re: xauthority and root xdm sessions should read the .xinitrc file on startup. I don't know what gdm does. Actually, I am looking for a solution myself. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xauthority and root

2002-04-21 Thread Andy Saxena
~/username//.Xauthority to get it to work. Is there anyway I can add this to a script at boot, so I don't have to enter it when I need to use something as root? I am not running a server so I don't think I need to worry about security on this. Ceate $HOME/.xinitrc

xauthority and root

2002-04-20 Thread Decibels
Seems that a lot of the stuff I try to do, like 'make xconfig' and starting a xfm session,... for root, when I need to use root, I still have to do the xauth merge ~/username//.Xauthority to get it to work. Is there anyway I can add this to a script at boot, so I don't have to enter it when

Re: xauthority and root

2002-04-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:22:48PM -0500, Decibels wrote: Seems that a lot of the stuff I try to do, like 'make xconfig' and starting a xfm session,... for root, when I need to use root, I still have to do the xauth merge ~/username//.Xauthority to get it to work. Is there anyway I can

xhost Xauthority Xdialog

2002-03-14 Thread Craig
I am wondering why Xdialog can't connect to the X server when run from the at command. I am trying to write little scripts that pop up a message window using Xdialog, and they work, but if I try to use them in an 'at' command, instead of executing they fail mail me this message: Xdialog: Error

xauthority issues...

2002-03-03 Thread camilo
Hi! Im having some problems with Xauthority under potato... By now i have more or less grasped the concept about xauth and the .Xauthority file, but im not sure about what to do; my problem is as follows: I cant run any installed programs if i dont log in to gnome as root, like for example

Re: xauthority issues...

2002-03-03 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:34 AM 3/3/02, you wrote: Hi! Im having some problems with Xauthority under potato... By now i have more or less grasped the concept about xauth and the .Xauthority file, but im not sure about what to do; my problem is as follows: I cant run any installed programs if i dont log

[OT] xfree, cygwin, win98, XDMCP, .Xauthority

2001-12-01 Thread dman
with XDMCP. Here's where the problem starts : the machine locks up in spurts (doesn't accept input, though errors still display in the shell) while in the shell that started X I see the following messages (copied by hand, can't seem to redirect output) : cat: /home/user/.Xauthority: No such file

WG: .Xauthority empty

2001-09-27 Thread Mayer, Christian \(Dregis\)
Hi, cannot connect to xserver (4.1.0.5) since upgrade to woody. i deleted .Xauthority and but when it was created again it was empty. Here my .xsession-errors (root): Xsession: unable to launch kde X session; kde not found. Xsession: Falling back to default session. Xlib: connection to :0.0

.Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread tim
hello all I upgraded to kde 2.2beta. I start now to runlevel 5 and kdm. My problem is that I dont know how to configure Xauthority that other users (even root) can acces the display. I get the following message: --/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.5) Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Error: Can't open display: :0 1st solution (lame, don't run x programs as root): $ su - # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~tim/.Xauthority # xapp 2nd solution (superior

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su ^^^ Where is the '-'? Never su, alway su -. There is a reason for it. It is not to hassle you with having to change

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread tim
1st solution (lame, don't run x programs as root): $ su - # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~tim/.Xauthority # xapp works! but dissapears after relogin. So where do I need to place it that it persists? 2nd solution (superior): # adduser tim video # exit $ newgrp $ xawtv

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~tim/.Xauthority # xapp works! but dissapears after relogin. So where do I need to place it that it persists? If you are the only user that will ever su to run an x app, you can do another pretty lame trick by putting both variable assignments in /root

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:38:53AM -0500, ktb wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su ^^^ Where is the '-'? Never su, alway su -. There is a reason for

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread tim
On Monday, 2. July 2001 17:00, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:06:40PM +0200, tim wrote: 1st solution (lame, don't run x programs as root): $ su - # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~tim/.Xauthority # xapp works! but dissapears after relogin. So where do I need

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
the mode 0600 on ~tim/.Xauthority doesn't matter. If it is always user tim, logged in on the :0 display, who su's to root, then it should work, I figure. Although I must admit not having actually tested it. As I said, I think it's pretty lame. Do something else. Cheers, Joost

Re: .Xauthority and kdm

2001-07-02 Thread Francois Gouget
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, tim wrote: hello all I upgraded to kde 2.2beta. I start now to runlevel 5 and kdm. My problem is that I dont know how to configure Xauthority that other users (even root) can acces the display. I get the following message

Xauthority?

1999-08-07 Thread erasmo perez
hallo guys! where can i specify the name of the server that is authorized to conect to my server? i mean, if i try tu run a graphic application of another server in my debian macine, i receive a message: Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to server where/how can I authorize this?

Re: Xauthority?

1999-08-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Aug, erasmo perez wrote about Xauthority? hallo guys! where can i specify the name of the server that is authorized to conect to my server? i mean, if i try tu run a graphic application of another server in my debian macine, i receive a message: Xlib: Client is not authorized

.Xauthority

1999-08-02 Thread Balasubramanian S
Hello Remco, I am Balu, I am working as a Software Engineer in Digital Equibment India Ltd, Bangalore. I need some calrifications regarding .Xauthority. I have changed my hostname to more than 31 characters, but the uname limitation is 32 character only. I changed the hostname

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much On Sun, 9 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I installed KDE 1.1.1 on my Slink system and found I had

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote: As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much The problem is that something would change the ownership back

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote: As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much The problem

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-May-99 Anthony Campbell wrote: When you get problems with .Xauthority files, you should delete them and then do xauth-b to rebuild them. I would need to do this at every login :( until I find out what is causing the problem. What I will do is put something in my .bash_profile

problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-09 Thread Pollywog
. The problem is that something keeps putting .Xauthority files in my directory, and that should not be a problem, except that they are owned root.root and until I remove them, I cannot start X because I get either an error about being unable to lock the file, or an error about being unable to write to the file

Re: another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Chris Evans wrote: Many, many thanks for your help... On 5 Aug 98, at 12:54, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: First thing is: are you su-ing and then running emacs? When you su you lose your XAUTHORITY environment variable. The variables points to a file which is used to authenticate you

another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Chris Evans
entries seem to say something about an .Xauthority file which my ordinary user account doesn't have. Same thing happens after su in xterm though. I am sure I'm getting my permissions wrong but can't find the magic key or magic cookie. Anyone put me straight?! Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
First thing is: are you su-ing and then running emacs? When you su you lose your XAUTHORITY environment variable. The variables points to a file which is used to authenticate you to the X server. What's more, the permissions on xauthority files are set 600 so that only the user logged in can

Xauthority permission change

1998-05-27 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
When I su root and run X (startx) from the su'ed shell, the owner and modes of the real-UID-user's-home/.Xauthority are changed to root and rw--- (ls format). (The file group doesn't change.) Next time you start X as a normal user, no X applications can be started because .Xauthority

Re: Xauthority question was: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-03 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]' On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 07:35:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] IF you are not running multiple X displays on your machine then a simple technique is to 'su' in an xterm, 'cp /home/user/.Xauthority /root' which will then let root open things

.Xauthority exmh?

1998-04-11 Thread Art Lemasters
Do any of you know how to solve the .Xauthority and exmh tk send problem for Debian? I have only found the openwin solution in the docs. Thanks, Art -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xauthority

1998-01-16 Thread tko
An update on the Xauthority problem 8-) On a wild idea, I commented out any references to initializing XAUTHORITY anywhere in the system. Lo and behold, xauth worked and I now have good .Xauthority files for root and other users! I did logout all users to reset all the enviroment variables before

Re: Xauthority

1998-01-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An update on the Xauthority problem 8-) On a wild idea, I commented out any references to initializing XAUTHORITY anywhere in the system. Lo and behold, xauth worked and I now have good .Xauthority files for root and other users! I did logout all

loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread hawk
I'm stumped again. I've lost my ability to control xhost for more than a minute or so. This is fairly recent. my xhost + . . . line in .xsession used to let me specify my common hosts, including localhost. No longer. It is necessary to do an xhost + immediately before a program tries to

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
than using xhost. In order to use it, you need to have your XAUTHORITY environment variable set. It should be a full-pathname to an xauth file. This is generally '~/.Xauthority'. Your X server must also be set up to use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, which xdm does by default. The next hurdle

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
easier way. Since root can read other users' files, you can just tell root to use user foo's $HOME/.Xauthority file (which is where all the information we've just manipulated using 'xauth' is stored)... Just setting root's XAUTHORITY environment variable to (say) /home/foo/.Xauthority will tell root

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread hawk
Martin wrote, From: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:48:19 + Subject: xauth +, not a good idea... If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit about xauth. xauth list $DISPLAY will list the key for the display $DISPLAY.

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin wrote, From: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:48:19 + Subject: xauth +, not a good idea... If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit about xauth. xauth list $DISPLAY will list the key

Xauthority

1997-07-07 Thread BG Lim
Installing Xfree3.3 form bo-updates gives me Xauthority as well. My question is, how do i use it to authorise other users to display on the same server? I know the xauth program is used but I have followed the instructions in the man page but still I can't get it to work. Please help BG

Re: Xauthority

1997-07-07 Thread Dima
BG Lim wrote: Installing Xfree3.3 form bo-updates gives me Xauthority as well. My question is, how do i use it to authorise other users to display on the same server? I know the xauth program is used but I have followed the instructions in the man page but still I can't get it to work. cd

Re: exmh and Xauthority

1996-08-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
I seem to have a problem with exmh (or X). When I start exmh I get a string of BGRegister insecure server (must run old style xauth). Command ignored. I think I understand what is happening: my X server is not generating the ~/.Xauthority file needed to run secure and exmh

exmh and Xauthority

1996-08-16 Thread Giuseppe Vacanti
Hi, I seem to have a problem with exmh (or X). When I start exmh I get a string of BGRegister insecure server (must run old style xauth). Command ignored. I think I understand what is happening: my X server is not generating the ~/.Xauthority file needed to run secure and exmh complains. But I

Re: exmh and Xauthority

1996-08-16 Thread Philippe Troin
server is not generating the ~/.Xauthority file needed to run secure and exmh complains. But I haven't been able to fix this problem. The simplier way is to use xdm. Alternately, you can create the cookie by yourself if you want to use startx. I've got a small program (20 lines of C) that generates