Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-07 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:31:13PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:05:00 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS is the x cookie in anyway related to the user passwd ? Completely unrelated, it's just a random number basicly. If it is a random number how can

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-06 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:35:07AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: Thx this clears alot of questions :) One more question doh, about the x cookie. How long does it take to calculate the x cookie string yourself of a user you want to hack :) PS is the x cookie in anyway related to the

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-06 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:05:00 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS is the x cookie in anyway related to the user passwd ? Completely unrelated, it's just a random number basicly. If it is a random number how can the xserver it user x random number and not user y random number ?

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:47:04 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:21:34AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:58:35 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This enable all programs to have access that are using unix domain sockets to

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-05 Thread Gert Cuykens
Thx this clears alot of questions :) One more question doh, about the x cookie. How long does it take to calculate the x cookie string yourself of a user you want to hack :) PS is the x cookie in anyway related to the user passwd ? ___

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-04 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:21:34AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:58:35 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This enable all programs to have access that are using unix domain sockets to not need the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE stored in the .Xauthority file in the users

RE: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gert Cuykens Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 6:20 PM To: Chris Hodgins Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xhost +localhost Don't want to be rude but do you have a specific reason

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't want to be rude but do you have a specific reason for running xscreensaver as root? Chris Well the reason is very simple actuale lets pretend we have a user gert. User gert has alot of pictures and

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 5:58 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote: i want a screensaver but the ... xscreensaver daemon wont start complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still wont start :( Sounds like your trying to run the screensaver from a root terminal in a normal

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While all of this is very interesting academic, if user Gert is dumb enough to leave the console of his UNIX system accessible then user

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:02:50PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/02/05 06:58 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: i want a screensaver but the ... xscreensaver daemon wont start complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still wont

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
epilogue wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While all of this is very interesting academic, if user Gert is dumb enough to leave the console of his UNIX system accessible then

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:58:35 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This enable all programs to have access that are using unix domain sockets to not need the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE stored in the .Xauthority file in the users home directory so any user can open a program on that display.

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:40:01 +, Chris Hodgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:58:35 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This enable all programs to have access that are using unix domain sockets to not need the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE stored in the

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:49:48PM -0500, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While all of this is very interesting academic, if user Gert is dumb enough

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-03 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:48:40 -0800, Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:49:48PM -0500, epilogue wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +0100 Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:32:23 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/02/05 06:58 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: i want a screensaver but the ... xscreensaver daemon wont start complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still wont start :( If you're trying this on 5.3, the syntax has changed. Try something like

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/02/05 06:58 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: i want a screensaver but the ... xscreensaver daemon wont start complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still wont start :( If you're trying this on 5.3, the syntax has changed. Try

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/02/05 05:02 PM, Chuck Swiger sat at the `puter and typed: Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/02/05 06:58 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: i want a screensaver but the ... xscreensaver daemon wont start complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Don't shoot the messenger! :) Heh, sorry, that wasn't my intention. [ ... ] It's probably not the only deprecation or interface change from 4.x. I believe the 'nslookup' tool is now a wrapper to the 'host' utility, but I never used either one in complex enough ways to see any

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
I# xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list I# ok that seems to work a bit better meaning i dont get the message can not start screen saver deamon bl bla bla. Instead i get a message in my log that locking is not enabled ?

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/02/05 11:36 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: I# xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list I# ok that seems to work a bit better meaning i dont get the message can not start screen saver deamon bl bla bla. Instead i get a message in

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:43:23 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/02/05 11:36 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: I# xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list I# ok that seems to work a bit better meaning i dont get the message

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: I# xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list I# ok that seems to work a bit better meaning i dont get the message can not start screen saver deamon bl bla bla. Instead i get a message in my log that locking is not enabled ?

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/03/05 12:05 AM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:43:23 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/02/05 11:36 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: I# xhost local: non-network local connections being added to access control list I#

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:24:32 -0600, Henry Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/3/2005 at 00:05 Gert Cuykens wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:43:23 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/02/05 11:36 PM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: I# xhost local: non-network

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
I assume this refers to the root window. Surely you're not logged into X as root. no i am just logged as a user into X and my user name is the same as root :) Lets call it the user root window. Try this: check your DISPLAY environment variable with echo $DISPLAY make sure it's ':0.0' or

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Hodgins
Gert Cuykens wrote: I assume this refers to the root window. Surely you're not logged into X as root. no i am just logged as a user into X and my user name is the same as root :) Lets call it the user root window. Try this: check your DISPLAY environment variable with echo $DISPLAY make sure

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/03/05 01:10 AM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: I assume this refers to the root window. Surely you're not logged into X as root. no i am just logged as a user into X and my user name is the same as root :) Lets call it the user root window. Try this: check your

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Gert Cuykens
Don't want to be rude but do you have a specific reason for running xscreensaver as root? Chris Well the reason is very simple actuale lets pretend we have a user gert. User gert has alot of pictures and music stuff phone numbers user gert dont want does things to be gone. Somebody hacks

Re: xhost +localhost

2005-02-02 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/03/05 03:19 AM, Gert Cuykens sat at the `puter and typed: Don't want to be rude but do you have a specific reason for running xscreensaver as root? Chris Well the reason is very simple actuale lets pretend we have a user gert. User gert has alot of pictures and music stuff phone