How can I get xauth with startx?

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01-15-2005, 09:09 AM	#1
hypnos Member Registered: May 2004 Distribution: debian Posts: 52 Rep:	How can I get xauth with startx? i know XDM uses xauth to authenticate X sessions and it writes something called 'magic cookie' to ~/.Xauthority, but how can i get similar xauth authentication when starting X with startx from the command prompt? Is there something i need to add into ~/.xinitrc ?

01-15-2005, 04:39 PM	#2
hypnos Member Registered: May 2004 Distribution: debian Posts: 52 Original Poster Rep:	Nevermind, i found this http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/2231 and it seems to work.

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