"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <i...@metux.net> writes:
> But this doesn't make much sense to me: why should the xserver - if > started as root (but dropping privs) - be prevented from reading an > xauth file ? Maybe for NFS? Imagine (it's the late 90s and) you've got a workstation running an X server as root, with home directories mounted from an NFS server with root_squash enabled - if you started the server with -auth /home/me/.Xauthority, the X server wouldn't be able to read it. I expect most modern machines used the saved-IDs version of the code rather than the cat version... -- Adam Sampson <a...@offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
