Comment 10 for bug 276357

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 276357] Re: disable xauth for local users

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:06:05AM -0000, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> please note that ltsp (which we promote as a product) by default uses
> ssh -Y as connection method (with proxied X connection as described
> above) and offers an additional feature to do teh X traffic forwarding
> unencrypted (while keeping teh password handshake in a ssh tunnel) that
> is secured by xauth cookies. LDM (the ltsp display manager) uses
> functionallity to add and remove on the fly generated session cookies to
> the Xauthority file of the user for the latter case, i dont see why this
> shouldnt just work in case of a hostname change.
>

This is valid for complex setups but imo, we should not go for such
complicated solutions if there is a simple one for almost all cases -
and which is used by fedora.

Bryce, can you push this to jaunty please?

 - Alexander