[Nottingham] Gentoo/Gnome/X permissions

[Martin]

Andy Davidson wrote:
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> The .Xauthority file contains a reference to a magic cookie that the X 
> server will use to determine whether the user wanting to run the 
> software in an open X session is the same as the user holding that X 
> session open.

OK, so my two brain cells are confused!

With:
A user physically on ComputerA, running (via a ssh link) a program on 
ComputerB and using X on ComputerA to display the results: which 
.Xauthority gets updated with what?


(OK, so sometimes I get the bad magic cookies error message :(

Thanks,
Martin

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