[nas] nas dependent on X11

[Jon Trulson]

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Lex Spoon wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:41:48 -0400 
> From: Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: Re: [nas] nas dependent on X11
> 
> Jon Trulson <jon at radscan.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > The domain
> > socket is good for localconn, but the X auth should work regardless of the
> > connection type.  Right now what seems to work (with 1.5a) is localconn,
> > localconn + TCP - with or without auth (-aa)...
> > 
> 
> Really!  Can you point me how to set up authentication?  Does it
> *automatically* read my own .Xauthority, or what?  All I've seen is this
> line from the nasd man page:

	It's supposed to, but it does not appear to understand it very
well... perhaps since it's (the auth code) pretty old.  It is something
I'd like to get working... MAy it just needs some newer bits from Xau.

> 
> 	The current access control support is weak at best.
> 

	;-)  Yes... right now with 1.5c, you can choose:

	local only
	local/tcp

	And among those, you can choose auth or anyone (-aa).  Auth does
not appear to be working well.  Needs some TLC.


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