xauth clarifications

[Sylvain Leroux]

On 02/26/2018 03:26 PM, Michal Srb wrote:
> On pondělí 26. února 2018 15:21:17 CET Sylvain Leroux wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>> 
>> Thanks to your answer and by studying the /usr/bin/startx script
>> on my system, things are much more clear now.
>> 
>> On 02/22/2018 05:16 PM, Michal Srb wrote:
>>>> 3) Are Xorg and Xephyr handling xauth the same way? 
>>>> ================================================ I'm using
>>>> both a genuine Xorg server and Xephyr.
>>>> 
>>>> Are both of them consistent in their way to handle xauth 
>>>> authorizations?
>>> 
>>> I think yes.
>> 
>> I can't see a "-auth" option in the Xephyr man page. So, do you
>> you know against what it checks incoming client credentials? I
>> suspect it will use the process owner's ~/.Xauthority file but
>> I'm not sure...
> 
> The manual page of Xephyr says "The server accepts all the standard
> options of Xserver(1) and the following additional options". And
> manual page of Xserver has the "-auth" option.
> 
> Also Xephyr -help shows the -auth option.
> 
> If the -aith is not set, it won't use any auth file and let any
> client in.
> 
> Michal
> 

Thanks a lot Michal for having pointed that!

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