X authorization problems in a mobile environment

[Adam Jackson]

On Friday 05 August 2005 00:43, Egbert Eich wrote:
> When authorization is enabled and host based authorization is
> disabled clients search an authorization file (normaly ~/.Xautority)
> for a credential to pass to the server before connetion setup.
>
> remote hosts are identified by their IP. Local hosts are identified
> by their hostname which is obtained simply by calling gethostname().

Why wouldn't you just use xhost +si:localuser:$(whoami) in this scenario 
instead of screwing with xauth?

I agree that the server's use of the local hostname for xauth processing is 
broken though.

- ajax
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