From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13921 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 18:03:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13914 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 18:03:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.mail.areti.net) (193.109.192.70) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 18:03:53 -0000 Received: from halkidiki.areti.com (root@halkidiki.areti.com [193.109.192.71]) by relay.mail.areti.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Areti-4.0.0R) with ESMTP id i02I3qeZ021536 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:03:52 GMT Received: (from chris@localhost) by halkidiki.areti.com (8.11.7-20030925/8.11.7) id i02I3qM05135 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:03:52 GMT Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:03:00 -0000 From: Chris Green To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection? Message-ID: <20040102180352.GB5079@areti.co.uk> Reply-To: chris.green@isbd.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <20031231221603.GA320@areti.co.uk> <3FF34EE3.9070300@msu.edu> <20040101153702.GB1971@areti.co.uk> <20040102140446.GA4425@areti.co.uk> <20040102144403.GA4596@areti.co.uk> <20040102152042.GA4731@areti.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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)