From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22223 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2013 14:21:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22211 invoked by uid 89); 30 Apr 2013 14:21:31 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-vb0-f46.google.com) (209.85.212.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:21:30 +0000 Received: by mail-vb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id 10so440584vbe.33 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:21:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.161.38 with SMTP id xp6mr1337472vdb.59.1367331688793; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.152.164 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:21:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: struggling with xauth vs xhost From: "Larry W. Virden" To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-SW-Source: 2013-04/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 While in the process of moving from a commercial X server to the cygwin Xfree server, we seem to have run into a peculiar behavior. The previous environment made heavy use of xhost. I proposed that in cygwin xfree we move to xauth as a more secure environment. That has for the most part worked out. The environment is that the x applications are running on a Solaris 10 sparc machine, displaying back to Win7 desktops with cygwin 1.7.x running on them. When a user chooses the single X window method of opening a local window which ssh's over to the Unix machines, things seem to work okay. When they choose the "full screen" approach, where the entire window takes over the desktop, and the window manager and everything else is running remotely, an xhost is being executed. This causes some applications to fail because the language used considers that to be a security risk. When we look in both local start up files as well as remote start up files, we do not see where the xhost is being performed. Is there a way for us to track down where that is occurring so that we can see about commenting that out? Thanks! -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/