[VirtualGL-Devel] Why use vglgenkey instead of xhost?

2014-01-06 Thread Sam S.
When running `vglserver_config` and selecting the option to restrict X server access to the "vglusers" group, it patches the display manager's init script to run `vglgenkey` on startup (which is, in turn, is a script that messes around with xauth magic cookies). Why not make the display manager ca

[VirtualGL-Devel] Potential `vglserver_config` bug: setdripermissions() only called if xorg.conf exists

2014-01-06 Thread Sam S.
In the `vglserver_config` script, the function setdripermissions() is called once each with the following parameters: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" "/etc/X11/XF86Config" If the given path does not exist, the function returns immediately. Thus on modern Linux systems it won't do anything, because usage

Re: [VirtualGL-Devel] Potential `vglserver_config` bug: setdripermissions() only called if xorg.conf exists

2014-01-06 Thread Sam S.
Correction: "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/" in my last mail should be "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/". On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:17 AM, DRC wrote: > On 1/6/14 10:01 PM, Sam S. wrote: > > Or should the function possibly create a new file (e.g. > > "/usr/share/X11