[ale] X application as root

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 06:05:14PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> Great.  what is the secure and "not longer" way to grant full access to 
> a particular host? (i.e. xhost +ipaddr).

Transfer the xauth cookie to the remote host.  There's more information
on this here:  http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html .

Of course, it's much easier to use ssh with X forwarding if possible.

Jason
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