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Re: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 problem
- From: Peter Giorgilli <pgiorgilli at theage dot fairfax dot com dot au>
- To: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: cygwin xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:31:11 +1000
- Subject: Re: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 problem
- Organization: The Age
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205141959380.1477-100000@lupus.ago.vpn>
- Reply-to: pgiorgilli at theage dot fairfax dot com dot au
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > eg.
> > #/etc/X0.hosts
> > 127.0.0.1
> >
> > I will take a look on this tonight.
>
> I checked my configuration at home:
>
> The file /etc/X0.hosts contains all hosts, which may connect to the
> XServer.
>
> Having a host in /etc/X0.hosts is equivalent to allowing access from this
> host via xhost.
>
Alex,
I should've mentioned that I don't want to use host-based authentication
simply because it does not provide the level of access control req'd for
our environment where potentially hundreds of workstations will be
running cygwin/xfree. That said, I could always add "127.0.0.1" into the
/etc/X0.hosts file as you pointed out thus enabling access via the
localhost for all time.
The "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1" style access control is working fine except for
the weirdness I reported in my original post.
Peter
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