Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Richard Black did write: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > Generally, don't use xhost, it is not safe. Instead use xauth. > > But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man > page ie variants of > > xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge - > > but there still seems to be a problem. One thing I was wondering is if > this works when dhcpd is used. In particular, the machine in my DISPLAY > variable on the remote machine is different from the machine in the > .Xauthority file (on the remote machine)
Odd; this should work. What happens when you try this? The different DISPLAY settings that you describe shouldn't be a problem. The .Xauthority file can contain a list of several authentication keys, each associated with a different display. If the current display is already in the file, the associated authentication key will be overwritten; otherwise, it will be added. Use `xauth list' to see a list of what's going on here. Richard
