Changing the Default Authorization Protocol

The default authorization protocol, MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1, can be changed to another supported authorization protocol or to no user-based access mechanism at all. The default is changed by supplying options with the openwin command. See the openwin(1) man page for more information.

For example, to change the default from MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 to SUN-DES-1, start the OpenWindows environment as follows:

example%

openwin -auth

sun-des

If you must run OpenWindows without the user-based access mechanism, use the -noauth command line option.

example%

openwin -noauth

Using -noauth weakens security. It is equivalent to running OpenWindows with only the host-based access control mechanism; the server inactivates the user-based access control mechanism. Anyone who can run applications on your local machine will be allowed access to your server.