On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 05:20:50PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On 1/3/12 12:22 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > >> You moved between networks, which caused your hostname to change [1]. >> This meant that the xauth cookie for your current session no longer >> matched, because it embeds the hostname, because the spec says that's >> what you do. >> >> We set up X with two levels of authentication. The second is the >> traditional xauth cookie mechanism, but the first matches against UID >> instead [2]: >> >> % DISPLAY=:0 xhost >> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect >> SI:localuser:ajax >> >> So this keeps normal users from being affected when the hostname >> changes. But once you've switched UID you fall back to the xauth cookie >> and things break. >> >> I wrote a patch for this once: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679486#c43 >> >> And it got no conclusive testing or whatever, I forget. The patch itself >> is in package git, although not enabled in the libXau build: >> >> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libXau.git;a=commitdiff;h=bdfc287eca3dfeaf457d7607763beae782f0004b >> >> If someone wanted to test it, that'd rule. > > Anybody? Pretty please? Scratch build and a quick set of instructions on how to test/exercise it? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
