On Saturday 19 December 2020 17:13:21 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > Which does little to actually instruct me how to proceed. > > And /home/amanda/ICEauthority is an empty file. > > -rw------- 1 amanda backup 0 Mar 12 2008 .ICEauthority > > created in 2008, while /home/gene/.ICEauthority is > > -rw------- 1 gene gene 4300 Dec 3 01:41 /home/gene/.ICEauthority > > not an empty file. Must be 2 dozen MIT_MAGIC-COOKIES in it. And I'm > > in way over my head... > > Gene, the way might be too steep to climb. I had a command at hand > that helped me execute application from different user, but it was > regarding .Xauthority. > > What you are looking into is the .ICEauthority as described briefly > here > > The Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Protocol implemented by the > Inter-Client Exchange Library for direct communication between X11 > clients uses the same MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication method, but > has its own iceauth utility for accessing its own .ICEauthority file, > the location of which can be overridden with the environment variable > ICEAUTHORITY. ICE is used, for example, by DCOP and the X Session > Management protocol (XSMP). > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_authorization This ^^^^^^ is where its discussed? I'll look into it. Thanks. > I wonder if you can just stop the process like > kill -STOP <pid> > and then resume it after you finish > kill -CONT <pid> That would likely freeze it all. Not too desirable. Would the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE be different for a different user, or is there a way to cause amanda's ./ICEauthority to be updared with a valid cookie? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
