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Re: rh60 bug ?



I guess that erez doron meant 'xhost +localhost', and not xauth ...

If I understood correctly - the problem occurs during the _startup_ of
XWindows and has nothing to do with the display access lists ...

Ors

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Erez Doron wrote:

> Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > 
> > Erez Doron <erez@savan.com> writes:
> > 
> > > when running X not as root, i get:
> > > 'Authentication failed'
> > 
> > do a :
> > 
> >         xauth +localhost
> this is an ileagle syntax for xauth
> 
> man page:
> 
>   xauth [ -f authfile ] [ -vqib ] [ command arg ... ]
> 
> I've tried using xauth, but i susspect this is not the solution
> 
> thanks anyway
> erez.
> 
> > 
> > to allow all users from localhost to launch x applications. See the
> > man xauth(1) for more information
> > 
> > --
> > Chmouel
> 
>