Re: OS X X server

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: OS X X server
Date: 17:35 on 03 Jun 2004
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:53:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> $ xterm
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
> 
> 
> W.T.F? You have lost the authorisation to create new X sessions on the local
> server. Hateful thing.
> 
> Bad Apple - clearly no (valid magic) cookie.

This is why I was forced to shut off "Authenticate connections" and
"Allow connections from network clients".  I don't know if this is an
Apple issue or a general X issue but when your IP changes your cookies
become invalid.  Guess magic cookies were designed in the days when
computers had one static IP address and they certainly weren't carried
from one network to another while still running.


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Michael G Schwern        schwern@xxxxx.xxx  http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
I am forever changed by their dopeness.

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