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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: locking out users from a server....
Keywords: X11R4.18, SunOS, xinit  Dam* students anyway...
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.000115.26078@Think.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 90 00:01:15 GMT
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In article <1990Oct30.205926.28985@news.arc.nasa.gov> schoch@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Steve Schoch) writes:
>	3.  It starts (or restarts) the server with the argument
>"-auth /var/adm/xdm/auth-server".

Does this mean that MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization can only be used when
the server is running on the same host as xdm?  What is done for X
terminals and other random X servers?
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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