Re: [gdm-list] auth cookie handling

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi Ray,

On Nov 9, 2007 1:21 AM, Ray Strode <halfline gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've posted a patch to improve auth cookie handling here:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~halfline/gdm-2.21.1-improve-auth-cookie-handling.patch
>
> With this patch we now invoke the X server with the -auth argument and
> disable machine
> wide access to the X server.  This patch also drops the md5 hashing of
> random bytes to create cookies and instead just creates cookies
> directly (like the X server would if we asked the X server to generate
> the cookies for us).

This is fantastic.  Exactly what we needed.

I've committed this with one change to initialize fp in
_create_xauth_file_for_user().

Thanks!

Jon