[CLUE-Tech] Xauth problems

[Brandon N]

I think you need to look in to xdm (or the kde/gnome version)  there
was an article on this is Linux Journal I believe.

Brandon
--- Rick Sipin <rsipin at thinkingedge.com> wrote:
> To any Xauth  / xinit guru out there,
> I've got a small and secure network, and am trying to configure a
> Windows NT Client to
> be able to run X sessions on one of my Redhat 7 servers. I'm running
> into a dead-end
> on where I need to configure the server to allow 'console ownership'
> to a particular
> user. When I use the standard Redhat shell program 'startx' to try
> and launch a remote
> X session, it looks like its trying the recommended approach, using
> xauth and mcookie
> to generate a new cookie for my .Xauthority file, but I continue to
> get the following
> error -
> 
> "Authentication failed - cannot start  S server"
> "Perhaps you do not have console ownership"
> 
> I'm using Omni-X's PC-X server, and starting an xterm session, which
> opens
> successfully, with the DISPLAY variable set to my PC client machine
> successfully.
> 
> The relevant lines of my xstart script are as follows:
> mcookie=`mcookie`
> xauth add $display . $mcookie
> xinit -- -auth "$HOME/.Xauthority"
> 
> It appears that either I'm not getting the current cookie into my
> Xauthority file, or
> that I don't have the right arguements here, or have something else
> misconfigured. Any
> pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Rick Sipin - Owner
> Thinking Edge Design
> 357 S. McCaslin Blvd. Suite 200
> Louisville, CO 80027
> 
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