Re: Mandrake 6.0 .Xauthority

[chmouel () MANDRAKESOFT COM (Chmouel Boudjnah)]

Elmer Joandi <elmer () YLENURME EE> writes:

> Looks like Mandrake 6.0 wont create .Xauthority

I have already answer directly to you, why you just see the code from
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx is completely based on the RedHat version :

# set up default Xauth info for this machine
mcookie=`mcookie`
serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"
xauth add $display . $mcookie
xauth add `hostname -f`$display . $mcookie

xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs

> Dont know where and how RedHat does it but there it is.

Humm:
((test@vador)[~]-% rm -f ~/.Xauthority
((test@vador)[~]-% startx -- :1
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/test/.Xauthority
[...]
^C
((test@vador)[~]-% ls -l ~/.Xauthority
-rw-------   1 test     test          116 Aug 17 01:27 /home/test/.Xauthority

but maybe we talk about something different

> Now just installed Mandrake and assumed it to be RH60 clone
> and found after some time that there is just plain
> host authentication and that is quite wide-open.
>
> I solved the problem with
>
> echo remove $DISPLAY | xauth ;
> echo generate $DISPLAY | xauth ;
> in  /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> which is probably incorrect in detail.

do you launch you X server by xinit or by startx. On a mandrake the
preferred way to launch your X server is to use startx (or boot via
runlevel=5).

--
Chmouel