ary@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Bryan "Archer" Rowland) (04/11/90)
Hello,
I am trying to use the X11R4 xauthority on a network of Visual X-19's
running ROM Version 2.5, but I don't know how to get the server to read
the .Xauthority file in a person's home directory. Xauthority works
great on the SUN's, but with them the server can be started to use
.Xauthority files.
I thought that if I ran xdm on the Visual X-19's then I could use
xauthority. Unfortunately this isn't working because xdm thinks the
Visual X-19's are not secure.
Is it possible to run xauthority on Visual X-19's by themselves? If
not, can it be done with xdm? What special things do I need to do to
make it work?
thanx,
Bryan
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Bryan Rowland Purdue University Computing Center
The Archer Systems Programmer
>>>------>keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard) (04/11/90)
> I thought that if I ran xdm on the Visual X-19's then I could use > xauthority. Unfortunately this isn't working because xdm thinks the > Visual X-19's are not secure. The only way xdm can transmit that information to a remote terminal is via XDMCP; Visual does not support XDMCP (yet), making it impossible to negotiate authorization. But, xdm can only use an authorization scheme if the terminal supports it. For example, I've been testing a NCD-16 which does support XDMCP, and yet still has no authorization support; XDMCP doesn't guarantee authorization, it only provides the mechanism for setting things up. If you could use even the essentially-insecure MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, I suggest you call Visual and see if they're planning on supporting it when they come out with XDMCP support. Keith Packard MIT X Consortium
prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) (04/13/90)
In article <9509@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ary@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Bryan "Archer" Rowland) writes: > I am trying to use the X11R4 xauthority on a network of Visual X-19's > running ROM Version 2.5, but I don't know how to get the server to read > the .Xauthority file in a person's home directory. Xauthority works > great on the SUN's, but with them the server can be started to use > .Xauthority files. If you're running server version 2.5, you should upgrade to 2.6. Even though this doesn't help you in this particular case, it fixes some bugs and enhances performance somewhat. Second, if you have the "Host Software Tape", install and use Visual's own version of xdm (xdsxdm). It can do about the same things as X11R4 xdm can, but does it in a different way (heck, it it based on X11R3 xdm and was developed long before X11R4 xdm with xdmcp). It also supports about the same features as xauth, but again, in a different way. True X11R4 xdm/xdmcp and xauth will be supported later this year, or so I've heard. -- Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB