XFree86 / XDarwin and change of hostname

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 23, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> I'm not particularly familiar with how X servers work, but I  
> thought that usually to connect to a local X server you set your  
> DISPLAY to :0.0 which makes it connect to localhost.

Because of the design of X, there are potential security issues with  
allowing anyone client to access the X server.

There are different methods for dealing with this (see man 7  
Xsecurity for details).

I think by default, it's set to use the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE method.

In any event, the .Xauthority file stores the data used to authorize  
the client with the X server and each entry contains the X display  
name (which is the hostname + display number).

All of which means, changing the hostname of a machine would cause  
this to stop working (ie, this is expected behavior).

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