[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan) writes: [snip] | | Can anybody explain? | [snip] | | Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by | xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you | have to have that key. | | RedHat and SuSE probably don't enable their use. Under Debian you can | disable them via the xdm configuration file in | /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. If you wanted to turn them off you'd set | DisplayManager._0.authorize to false. | | The reason the cookies exist is because X is pretty insecure without | them. It's easy, for example, if you have "xhost + localhost" set for | someone on localhost to capture you're keystrokes in any of your | windows, or take snap shots of your screen.
Sorry to followup to my own post, but I should have mentioned that you deal with cookies via the xauth command, e.g., to list the cookies you have you can do xauth list Do a "man xauth" for further options. Gary
