Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Chris Green wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 05:10:57PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>>
>>>But if I run xhost in that session I will be setting xhost permissions
>>>on the Linux Slackware system which is most definitely not what is
>>>required.
>>
>>No. It sets the permissions of the __xserver__ to which the session belongs.
>>
>>Try it!
>>
>>linux$ echo $DISPLAY
>>win2k.local.net:0.0
>>linux$ xhost 127.0.0.1
>>127.0.0.1 being added to access control list
>>linux$ xhost            
>>access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
>>INET:localhost
>>linux$ DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xhost
>>xhost:  unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
>> 
>>win2k$ DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 xhost
>>access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
>>INET:win2k
>>
>>
>>>It seems very odd that xhost requires access to the local display in
>>>order to work as you need xhost to set permission to acces the local
>>>display - sort of catch 22.
>>
>>Same with the gates of a castle. To get in, you must open it from inside.
>>This is the main principle of security. You can not allow those who have
>>no access to change the permissions. 
>>
> 
> ... but I am "within the castle", I'm sitting running a script on the
> win2k system and I can't see how to run xwinclip there because it
> won't give me permission to display on the terminal that I'm already
> using.

Argue if you want, it won't change the way that the X security model was 
designed and works.

> It's of little use to be able to allow xwinclip to run on the win2k
> system by executing something on the Linux system.  One wants a means
> to do it from the X startup script.

Sure, one wants to, but there is not a way to do it.  Patches are welcome.

Harold