xauth clarifications

2018-02-22 Thread Sylvain Leroux
Hi everyone, I'm trying to understand the internals of the xauth authentification protocol, especially in the context of making the X display accessible to locally running Docker containers. I know if I add a cookie to the ".Xauthority" file of the X session owner and a guest has the same MIT-MAG

Re: xauth clarifications

2018-02-22 Thread Michal Srb
On středa 21. února 2018 12:45:27 CET Sylvain Leroux wrote: > 1) When is the "$XAUTHORITY" file (re-)read by the server? > > According to the Xauth man: > """ > Note that this program [xauth] does not contact the X server except > when the generate c