Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |I still cannot see all the implications (as there is domain socket, TCP and |RFB ((used by VNC)) protocolls now), but it is much clearer now. Thank you! Just to be clear, there is no such thing as "domain socket". Sockets are created (using the socket(

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 08:56:57AM +0200, Amos Shapira wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy > |the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to > |display a remote client on my home s

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) wrote: |> Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy |> the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to |> display a remote client on my home station, for example). Thsi I can do with |> xauth -extract and -merg

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy |the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to |display a remote client on my home station, for example). Thsi I can do with |xauth -extract and -merge (o

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 03:44:51AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 05:44:19PM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > although I don't understand what it is doing, it is working quite good > > > now. > > > > X11 magic cookies are usually generated whe

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 05:44:19PM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > although I don't understand what it is doing, it is working quite good now. > > X11 magic cookies are usually generated when a user logs in, XDM > copies them to the ~user/.Xauthority file which is supposed

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > although I don't understand what it is doing, it is working quite good now. X11 magic cookies are usually generated when a user logs in, XDM copies them to the ~user/.Xauthority file which is supposed to be readable only by the user. The server also knows the cookie's va