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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xauth doesn't work
Date: 17 Jul 1997 23:01:46 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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hchau@curie.cs.ucdavis.edu (Hung Chau) writes:

>%xhost
>xhost> add curie.cs.ucdavis.edu:0.0 . 12345678901234567890123456789012
>xhost> add landau.ucdavis.edu:0.0 . 12345678901234567890123456789012
>xhost> exit
>%

I'm sure you mean xauth here ?

Maybe you should use xdm for running X, as it sets up all the auth
stuff for you, and you just have to worry about exporting auth stuff.

	David.