Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:40:05 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & X Message-ID: <19990601234004.W6251@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990602140143.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from Daniel O'Connor on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 02:01:43PM %2B0930 References: <19990601232736.T6251@futuresouth.com> <XFMail.990602140143.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 02:01:43PM +0930, a little birdie told me
that Daniel O'Connor remarked
> >
> > And I think syscons + slightly customized startx script (creating
> > .Xauthority record, etc) is a pretty cool looking 'login' screen ;>
>
> Yeah, I wish startx did xauth stuff by default :-/
(Yep, I went WAAAAAAAY overboard. But it works)
(ttyp6):{403}% cat mystartx | grep auth
SERVERARGS=":0 -auth .Xauthority -bpp 32"
# Generate the xauth keys
bin/authcookiegen.sh 0
[23:38:21] mortis:~
(ttyp6):{404}% cat bin/authcookiegen.sh
#!/bin/sh
#
# A half-decent xauth cookie generator
DISPNUM=$1
# Generate the cookie in multiple parts, just for added safety
key1=`/usr/bin/vmstat -i | /sbin/md5`
key2=`/usr/bin/netstat -i | /sbin/md5`
key3=`/bin/ps -gaxuww | /sbin/md5`
key4=`/usr/sbin/pstat -f | /sbin/md5`
# There we go. Quick check
echo "key for display ${HOST}:${DISPNUM} is: $key1$key2$key3$key4"
# Now, gen the keys
xauth add ${HOST}/unix:${DISPNUM} . $key1$key2$key3$key4
xauth add ${HOST}:${DISPNUM} . $key1$key2$key3$key4
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