Re: xhost/Xauthority/etc?
Re: xhost/Xauthority/etc?
- Subject: Re: xhost/Xauthority/etc?
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:17:16 -0400
On 2008 Jun 5, at 15:59, Jay Levitt wrote:
I'm using 10.5.3 with Xquartz 2.1.1. (Which itself is odd, because
I know I installed 2.2.1 over 10.5.3, and in fact the About pane
says "Xquartz 2.1.1 - (xorg-server-1.3.0-apple20)". Hmm.)
You probably forgot that Xquartz has to be reinstalled after every
Apple update because Software Update will happily overwrite the newer
XQuartz with Apple's older one. (The alternative would be Software
Update failing, which would be Bad.)
Anyway, I am using X clients on a Fedora Core 9 machine. Every time
I restart X11.app, I need to open a terminal window and enter "xhost
+" to allow micro to connect.
It would be better to find a proper way to do this, such as ssh X11
forwarding (ssh -X -Y) or possibly copying the xauth key (man xauth).
That said, sometimes commercial applications refuse to play by the
rules and you have to expose yourself to significant security issues
(i.e. anyone can read any password you type in) by turning off
connection authorization with xhost. In this case, I'm not entirely
certain of this (tracked through the X startup stuff but OSX tends to
do things "differently") but I think you want to drop a script in /usr/
X11/lib/X11/xinit/startx.d which runs "xhost +". (It must be a
script, xinitrc "."s it.)
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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] email@hidden
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] email@hidden
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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