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From: Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040102180352.GB5079@areti.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401021824060.12132@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:27:42PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote:
>
> > The "start /B xhost 127.0.0.1" and the "start /B xwinclip" both fail
> > because they haven't got permission to access display 127.0.0.1:0.0.
> >
> > How on earth can one set this permission if xhost can't be run?
>
> create a file /etc/X0.hosts and add all hosts which should have access
> to the xserver.
>
Ah, now that seems a good idea, thanks!
> > The xterm one is running in has permission to display so why can't
> > xhost and xwinterm display there too?
>
> Which xterm? The one from linux has permission because you started it
> from the xdm session. The one from windows has no permission because
> someone might have logged on the the windows host and started it from
> there. This is a simple security issue.
>
The xterm that one runs by clicking on the cygwin icon, the standard
cygwin (not cygwin/X) terminal window. It's there that I'm trying to
start my session from (well, actually it's a batch file, but I'm
running it from that window).
--
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-02 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 23:21 Chris Green
[not found] ` <3FF34EE3.9070300@msu.edu>
2004-01-01 15:37 ` Chris Green
2004-01-01 18:26 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-02 14:04 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 14:33 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-02 14:44 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 15:20 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 17:27 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-02 18:03 ` Chris Green [this message]
2004-01-02 19:33 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-02 19:49 ` Thomas Dickey
2004-01-02 20:15 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-02 20:56 ` Thomas Dickey
2004-01-02 21:33 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-02 21:40 ` Thomas Dickey
2004-01-02 21:44 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-02 22:50 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 23:50 ` [OT] " Igor Pechtchanski
2004-01-03 0:07 ` Thomas Dickey
2004-01-03 12:22 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 16:10 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-02 18:00 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 18:28 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-02 18:50 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 19:20 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-01-02 22:50 ` Chris Green
2004-01-02 20:13 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-02 22:43 ` Chris Green
2004-01-03 11:00 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-01-12 19:57 Kevin Markle
2004-01-12 20:00 ` Harold L Hunt II
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