On 10/08/2012 12:59 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 10/ 7/12 10:53 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: >> Are there any good reasons against it? (after a thorough clean up or >> even a complete rewrite obviously). I can't think of a good one. > > How are you going to handle authentication for this? Purely using the > user based authentication? Or allowing magic cookies if you force people > to have a different xauthority file for each connection using this so two > servers using display :666 on different sockets don't overwrite each others > cookies? > For my personal use case, user based authentication is enough but since this is in no small part about keeping things more private, it also makes sense to use a dedicated xauthority file (although out of the box I think SELinux may get in the way of that somewhat) It seems to me that if one chooses to use custom socket locations, one should be prepared to deal with a custom xauth location to go with it? But I am open to suggestions on how best to proceed for other potential use cases.
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