Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtk or Xhost problem with linuxconf

[Matthew Cordes <mcorde61 maine edu>]

Are you sure that will work all the time?  I was under the impression the MIT 
Auth keys were re-created periodically when you start X. 

thanks
-matt



On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:54:42PM +0200, Nicolas GEORGE wrote:
> Matthew Cordes, dans le message (.gtk.general:2392), a icrit :
> > The reason that when you su to root and try to add allowed clients with 
> > xhost is that the root user is not allowed to access X ( assuming you 
> > started it as some other user).  I'm a little surprised by this though, 
> > I thought RedHat came by default configured to allow all local connections
> > in the one of X's startup scripts, but I don't use RedHat so I couldn't 
> > tell you for sure.
> 
> xhost is a weak way to handle security under X. The modern system uses a
> key file, $HOME/.Xauthority. X will only accept a connection if you give a
> key stored in that file. X clients started by root try to read
> ~root/.Xauthority, and can't find the valid key. All you have to do is to
> copy ~user/.Xauthority on ~root/. This file is 600, but as you are root,
> that's not a problem.
> 
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