Re: xauth clarifications

2018-02-26 Thread Sylvain Leroux
Hi Michal, Thanks to your answer and by studying the /usr/bin/startx script on my system, things are much more clear now. On 02/22/2018 05:16 PM, Michal Srb wrote: >> 3) Are Xorg and Xephyr handling xauth the same way? >> I'm using both a >>

Re: xauth clarifications

2018-02-26 Thread Michal Srb
On pondělí 26. února 2018 15:21:17 CET Sylvain Leroux wrote: > Hi Michal, > > Thanks to your answer and by studying the /usr/bin/startx script on my > system, things are much more clear now. > > On 02/22/2018 05:16 PM, Michal Srb wrote: > >> 3) Are Xorg and Xephyr handling xauth the same way? >

Re: xauth clarifications

2018-02-26 Thread Sylvain Leroux
On 02/26/2018 03:26 PM, Michal Srb wrote: > On pondělí 26. února 2018 15:21:17 CET Sylvain Leroux wrote: >> Hi Michal, >> >> Thanks to your answer and by studying the /usr/bin/startx script >> on my system, things are much more clear now. >> >> On 02/22/2018 05:16 PM, Michal Srb wrote: 3)

Re: xauth clarifications

2018-02-22 Thread Michal Srb
On středa 21. února 2018 12:45:27 CET Sylvain Leroux wrote: > 1) When is the "$XAUTHORITY" file (re-)read by the server? > > According to the Xauth man: > """ > Note that this program [xauth] does not contact the X server except > when the generate

xauth clarifications

2018-02-22 Thread Sylvain Leroux
Hi everyone, I'm trying to understand the internals of the xauth authentification protocol, especially in the context of making the X display accessible to locally running Docker containers. I know if I add a cookie to the ".Xauthority" file of the X session owner and a guest has the same