Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:57:40AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
Discovering this raised my curiousity. Since the new login does not
have access to the old one's xauth info, this can't be done by the login
scripts (I actually grepped them for such stuff). So it must be
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:57:40AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
Discovering this raised my curiousity. Since the new login does not
have access to the old one's xauth info, this can't be done by the
login scripts (I actually grepped them for such stuff). So it must be
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:57:40AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
On a Mandrake machine I've been using, I noticed .xauth{randomtext}
files on my home directory (actually I'd noticed them long time ago, but
never bothered to take a second look before), containing X authenticators.
It seems
On a Mandrake machine I've been using, I noticed .xauth{randomtext}
files on my home directory (actually I'd noticed them long time ago, but
never bothered to take a second look before), containing X authenticators.
It seems that when you use 'su' to switch login, and you have
XAUTHORITY
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:57:40AM +0300, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
Doing 'strings /bin/su' confirmed my suspicion - the string XAUTHORITY
does appear there.
It's probably done by pam. Look around /etc/pam.d.
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