D.2.4.2 Allowing Access When Using MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

If you are using the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization protocol, follow these steps to allow another user access to your server:

1. On the machine running the server, use xauth to extract an entry corresponding to hostname:0 into a file.

   For this example, hostname is anyhost and the file is xauth.info:

   myhost% /usr/openwin/bin/xauth nextract - anyhost:0 > $HOME/xauth.info

2. Send the file containing the entry to the user requesting access (using Mail Tool, rcp or some other file transfer method).

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   Note -

   Mailing the file containing your authorization information is a safer method than using rcp. If you do use rcp, do not place the file in a directory that is easily accessible by another user.

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3. The other user must merge the entry into his/her.Xauthority file.

   For this example, userhost merges xauth.info into the other user's .Xauthority file:

   userhost% /usr/openwin/bin/xauth nmerge - < xauth.info

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   Note -

   The auth-data is session-specific; therefore, it is valid only as long as the server is not restarted.

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