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From: chri@tiger (Christoph Ehrendorfer)
Subject: xauth doesn't work properly (SLS .99/p12)
Date: 1 Oct 1993 13:47:19 GMT

I set up SLS version 0.99/p12 without too much problem. After configuring X
there occured some problems with the xauth-security.

1) Using the xdm-Display Manager a MIT-Magic-Cookie is built that works fine.
The only drawback ist, that there is no random code used (as described in the
man-pages) but allways ffffffffffffff.... .
What can I do to use a random hex-code????

2) Using xinit the Magic-cookie-mechanism doesn't work at all.
I create my files with xauth:
       xauth -f .Xauthority
             add maus:0 . 12345555555333333333333355555455
             add maus/unix:0 . 23423423423432423432222222222224
             exit

(maus acually is my machine's name)

then trying to use this thing with
       xinit -- -auth .Xauthority

doesn't work.

What is the problem.

I'm running on a network and would also like to use the
magic-cookie-mechanism to connect to other machines. Therefore I copied the
Xauthority file to a nfs-mounted directory and everything is fine with the
xdm (there remains of course this fffffff... problem) but nothing is
working with xinit.

Please send personal mail :

Christoph.Ehrendorfer@itc.univie.ac.at

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