From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Apr 3 05:30:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03475 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 05:30:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from login-2.eunet.no (0@login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03460 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 05:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) Received: from skygge.myst.no (pc48.bergen-pm2-1.eunet.no [193.75.12.55]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.8.8/8.8.3/Torbjorn) with ESMTP id PAA14356; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:29:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (hjv@localhost) by skygge.myst.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA02140; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:25:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) X-Authentication-Warning: skygge.myst.no: hjv owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 00:25:18 +0200 (CEST) From: "Haavard J. Vaagstoel" X-Sender: hjv@skygge.myst.no To: David Wolfskill cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Server Access In-Reply-To: <199804022122.NAA09341@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: >>Oh, well. Perhaps xauth can be a solution. > >My recollection is that xauth (and the associated X-Magic-Cookie >authorization) was intended for precisely this situation. So, this would allow me to choose which users on my host that can access the X server? How would I go about doing this (just give me a push in the right direction, please :-))? -- Haavard Vaagstoel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message