From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20691 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 17:27:43 -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 20684 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 17:27:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de) (134.109.132.38) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2004 17:27:43 -0000 Received: from hedwig.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.173] helo=mailbox.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de) by tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AcT5K-0004Ed-If; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:27:42 +0100 Received: from odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.94] ident=[rR5pjy6+d+oG35dTN75/Yco2n6P/nsGS]) by mailbox.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AcT5K-0003VD-Ei; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:27:42 +0100 Received: from localhost (goal@localhost) by odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i02HRgq24124; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:27:42 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de: goal owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:27:00 -0000 From: Alexander Gottwald To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, chris.green@isbd.co.uk Subject: Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection? In-Reply-To: <20040102152042.GA4731@areti.co.uk> Message-ID: 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 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: --- Start der SpamAssassin 2.61 Textanalyse (0.0 Punkte) Fragen an/questions to: Postmaster TU Chemnitz --- Ende der SpamAssassin Textanalyse X-Scan-Signature: e90a451e269f6704296cddf3d75231cf X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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. > 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. bye ago -- Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723