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#! rnews 1830 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.229.87.25!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.indiana.edu!news From: Lars Hofhansl <lhofhans@indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XF86 XSecurity on FreeBSD 2.1.6 question Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 11:01:49 -0600 Organization: Indiana University Lines: 31 Message-ID: <32F4C87D.780A3199@indiana.edu> References: <5d2782$lik@eve.umiacs.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pionier.eigenmann.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: lars X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.28 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34647 David A. Bader wrote: > > Hi, > I'm running XFree86 3.2 installed from the FreeBSD 2.1.6-R CD-ROM, > and am trying to get an XSecurity feature to work. Namely, I want a > ".Xauthority" file written than I can then transfer to other > locations. > > >from "man XServer": > > -auth authorization-file > Specifies a file which contains a collection of > authorization records used to authenticate access. > See also the xdm and Xsecurity manual pages. > > There is no system xserverrc file: > % pwd > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit > % ls -lta > total 6 > drwxrwxr-x 28 root wheel 1024 Jan 24 17:11 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 16 19:50 ./ > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 666 Oct 24 02:54 xinitrc > > The .Xauthority file is never created when I start up X-Windows as > follows: (or when I create a .xserverrc to do the same thing). > Use XDM to start your X-Server. Lars