how to enable magic cookies on W2K cygwin X11?
David
dcorking@yahoo.fr
Tue Feb 18 22:05:00 GMT 2003
I wanted to make my cygwin xfree86 server as secure as possible, and I
have the perception that the following would help.
1. Stop the tcp listener
2. Enable the authentication cookies
Although I did not see it documented it seems I can successfully stop
the tcp listener by modifying 1 line in my startxwin.bat as follows
start XWin -nolisten tcp
and adding this line below it
set DISPLAY=:0.0
However I trawled the man pages about the cookies, and found the X
startup scripts in SuSE Linux (which has cookies) to be complex enough
that it would be a small project to convert them to cygwin.
Can you suggest a howto or simpler example scripts to enforce cookies?
Thanks in advance.
David
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