Re: [rdesktop-devel] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 support (diff)

[Jeremy W. <je...@je...>]

I hadn't realised I could do that. I should have checked out how it 
works more thoroughly.

Jeremy

Matt Chapman wrote:

> Why not run rdesktop from a script that runs xauth first?
> 
> Matt
> 
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:58:47PM +0000, Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> 
>>Yep,
>>
>>I've currently got it running in cygwin on my XP laptop (sharing the 
>>current session), now I've only been able to test it with by pointing 
>>another machine running the cygwin Xserver at it but I reckon it should 
>>mean you can point stock X terminals at a windows terminal server and up 
>>pops the windows login prompt.
>>
>>jeb
>>
>>Justin Fretwell wrote:
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>>
>>>ah riight, so you dont have to log in twice if you want to use a X server 
>>>for your dumb terminal but want to connect directly to the terminal server?
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thursday 26 June 2003 17:30, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>As I understand it the X server will accept connections from X clients
>>>>that supply a valid cookie (one that it knows about) or from X clients
>>>>whose IP is in the xhosts list.
>>>>
>>>>This diff lets rdesktop pass a cookie to the server when it tries to
>>>>connect.
>>>>
>>>>XDMCP works by the X server requesting a login prompt (from the xdm
>>>>server) and sending an X cookie which it views as valid, the xdm server
>>>>then tries to start on the X server returning that cookie to authorise
>>>>itself.
>>>>
>>>>I've got a simple xdm server which instead of sending a login prompt,
>>>>starts rdesktop on the X server, this means that rdesktop needs to pass
>>>>the cookie (which my xdm received) back to the X server to say its a
>>>>valid connection.
>>>>
>>>>Overall result: I run 'X -query <machine_running_my_xdm>' and a rdesktop
>>>>connection pops up.
>>>>
>>>>Jeremy
>>>>
>>>>Justin Fretwell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>what does it do?
>>>>>
>>>>>On Thursday 26 June 2003 15:51, Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Attached is a diff which adds a -M parameter for supplying a
>>>>>>MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 to rdesktop on the command line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm pretty new to c coding so not sure if the style is any good, it
>>>>>>seems to work fine when I test it though, and I don't think there are
>>>>>>any memory leaks (not sure I'd know how to find them though).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The diff is against the 1.2.0 source.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Comments?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jeremy
>>>>>>
>>>>>>PS: I'm not on the list so cc me please
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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