On 02/26/2018 03:26 PM, Michal Srb wrote: > On pondělí 26. února 2018 15:21:17 CET Sylvain Leroux wrote: >> Hi Michal, >> >> Thanks to your answer and by studying the /usr/bin/startx script >> on my system, things are much more clear now. >> >> On 02/22/2018 05:16 PM, Michal Srb wrote: >>>> 3) Are Xorg and Xephyr handling xauth the same way? >>>> ================================================ I'm using >>>> both a genuine Xorg server and Xephyr. >>>> >>>> Are both of them consistent in their way to handle xauth >>>> authorizations? >>> >>> I think yes. >> >> I can't see a "-auth" option in the Xephyr man page. So, do you >> you know against what it checks incoming client credentials? I >> suspect it will use the process owner's ~/.Xauthority file but >> I'm not sure... > > The manual page of Xephyr says "The server accepts all the standard > options of Xserver(1) and the following additional options". And > manual page of Xserver has the "-auth" option. > > Also Xephyr -help shows the -auth option. > > If the -aith is not set, it won't use any auth file and let any > client in. > > Michal >
Thanks a lot Michal for having pointed that! -- -- Sylvain Leroux -- sylv...@chicoree.fr -- http://www.chicoree.fr _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
