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--- ./nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/auth.c.X.original	2015-02-13 14:03:44.788440645 +0100
+++ ./nx-X11/programs/Xserver/os/auth.c	2015-02-10 19:13:13.452699065 +0100
@@ -28,6 +28,23 @@
 */
 /* $XFree86: auth.c,v 1.13 2003/04/27 21:31:08 herrb Exp $ */
 
+/**************************************************************************/
+/*                                                                        */
+/* Copyright (c) 2001, 2011 NoMachine, http://www.nomachine.com/.         */
+/*                                                                        */
+/* NX-X11, NX protocol compression and NX extensions to this software     */
+/* are copyright of NoMachine. Redistribution and use of the present      */
+/* software is allowed according to terms specified in the file LICENSE   */
+/* which comes in the source distribution.                                */
+/*                                                                        */
+/* Check http://www.nomachine.com/licensing.html for applicability.       */
+/*                                                                        */
+/* NX and NoMachine are trademarks of Medialogic S.p.A.                   */
+/*                                                                        */
+/* All rights reserved.                                                   */
+/*                                                                        */
+/**************************************************************************/
+
 /*
  * authorization hooks for the server
  * Author:  Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
@@ -129,7 +146,24 @@
 void
 InitAuthorization (char *file_name)
 {
+#ifdef __sun 
+    char * envBuffer;
+#endif
     authorization_file = file_name;
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_TEST
+    fprintf(stderr, "InitAuthorization: Going to propagate auth file '%s' to the environment.\n",
+                authorization_file);
+#endif
+#ifdef __sun 
+    envBuffer = malloc(15+strlen(authorization_file));
+    sprintf(envBuffer,"NX_XAUTHORITY=%s",authorization_file);
+    putenv(envBuffer);
+#else
+    setenv("NX_XAUTHORITY", authorization_file, 1);
+#endif
+#endif
+
 }
 
 static int
@@ -144,6 +178,68 @@
     if (!authorization_file)
 	return 0;
 
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH
+
+    /*
+     * We think that the way LoadAuthorization() is working is wrong.
+     * It doesn't reset the list of stored authorizations before reading
+     * the new cookies. Our take is that if a new auth file is to be
+     * read, the only cookies that are to be accepted are those that are
+     * in the new file, not those in the file -plus- those that have
+     * been in the file in the past. Furthermore, if the list can't be
+     * read or it is empty, it should assume that it ignores which co-
+     * okies are valid and thus it should disable any access. Your mile-
+     * age can vary. A less draconian approach could be to leave the old
+     * cookies if the file can't be read and remove them only if the
+     * file is empty.
+     *
+     * Adding the cookies without removing the old values for the same
+     * protocol has an important implication. If an user shares the co-
+     * okie with somebody and later wants to revoke the access to the
+     * display, changing the cookie will not work. This is especially
+     * important with NX. For security reasons, after reconnecting the
+     * session to a different display, it is advisable to generate a
+     * new set of cookies, but doing that it is useless with the current
+     * code, as the old cookies are going to be still accepted. On the
+     * same topic, consider that once an user has got access to the X
+     * server, he/she can freely enable host authentication from any
+     * host, so the safe behaviour should be to reset the host based
+     * authenthication at least at reconnection, and keep as valid only
+     * the cookies that are actually in the file. This behaviour would
+     * surely break many applications, among them a SSH connection run
+     * inside a NX session, as ssh -X reads the cookie for the display
+     * only at session startup and does not read the cookies again
+     * when the auth file is changed.
+     *
+     * Another bug (or feature, depending on how you want to consider
+     * it) is that if the authority file contains entries for different
+     * displays (as it is the norm when the authority file is the default
+     * .Xauthority in the user's home), the server will match -any- of
+     * the cookies, even cookies that are not for its own display. This 
+     * means that you have be careful when passing an authority file to
+     * nxagent or Xnest and maybe keep separate files for letting nxagent
+     * find the cookie to be used to connect to the remote display and
+     * for letting it find what cookies to accept. If the file is the
+     * same, clients will be able to connect to nxagent with both the
+     * cookies.
+     */
+
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH_RESET
+
+    #ifdef NX_TRANS_TEST
+    fprintf(stderr, "LoadAuthorization: Resetting authorization info.\n");
+    #endif
+
+    for (i = 0; i < NUM_AUTHORIZATION; i++) {
+        if (protocols[i].Reset) {
+            (*protocols[i].Reset) ();
+        }
+    }
+
+#endif
+
+#endif /* #ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH */
+
     f = Fopen (authorization_file, "r");
     if (!f)
 	return -1;
@@ -154,6 +250,14 @@
 		memcmp (protocols[i].name, auth->name, (int) auth->name_length) == 0 &&
 		protocols[i].Add)
 	    {
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH
+
+                #ifdef NX_TRANS_TEST
+                fprintf(stderr, "LoadAuthorization: Adding new record from file [%s].\n",
+                            authorization_file);
+                #endif
+
+#endif
 		++count;
 		(*protocols[i].Add) (auth->data_length, auth->data,
 					 FakeClientID(0));
@@ -162,7 +266,46 @@
 	XauDisposeAuth (auth);
     }
 
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH
+
+    if (count == 0)
+    {
+      fprintf(stderr, "Warning: No authorization record could be read from file '%s'.\n",
+                  authorization_file);
+
+      fprintf(stderr, "Warning: Please, create a valid authorization cookie using the command\n"
+                  "Warning: 'xauth -f %s add <display> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 <cookie>'.\n",
+                      authorization_file);
+    }
+
+#endif
+
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH
+    if (Fclose (f) != 0)
+    {
+        /*
+         * If the Fclose() fails, for example because of a signal,
+         * it's advisable to return the number of protocols read,
+         * if any, or otherwise the server would believe that no
+         * cookie is valid and eventually fall back to host based
+         * authentication. Note anyway that the new code in Check-
+         * Authorization() doesn't care the return value and gives
+         * a chance to the function to check the file at the next
+         * connection.
+         */
+
+        if (count > 0)
+        {
+            return count;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            return -1;
+        }
+    }
+#else
     Fclose (f);
+#endif
     return count;
 }
 
@@ -194,7 +337,10 @@
     int	i;
     struct stat buf;
     static time_t lastmod = 0;
+
+    #ifndef NX_TRANS_AUTH
     static Bool loaded = FALSE;
+    #endif
 
     if (!authorization_file || stat(authorization_file, &buf))
     {
@@ -225,7 +371,67 @@
 	 * entries for this server), and reloading it later fails, don't
 	 * change anything. (loadauth == -1 && loaded)
 	 */
-	
+
+#ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH
+
+        /*
+         * The implementation of CheckAuthorization() was changed. The way
+         * the auth file was handled previously was questionable and could
+         * open the way to a vast array of security problems. There might be
+         * ways for an attacker to prevent the server from reading the file
+         * and it was enough for the server to fail reading the file once
+         * (because of a not blocked signal, for example) to leave the dis-
+         * play open to all the users running a session on the same terminal
+         * server.
+         *
+         * In NX we want to have only two cases: either we have to check an
+         * authorization file or we don't. In the first case we need to do our
+         * best to read the file at any new client access and never fall back
+         * to host based authentication. Falling back to local host access has
+         * no way back, as it will always take precedence over the auth cookie
+         * (unless the user explicitly disables, one by one, all the rules
+         * allowing local access, if and only if he/she becomes aware of the
+         * problem). In the second case we assume that user doesn't care secu-
+         * rity and so allow unrestricted access from the local machine.
+         */
+
+        #ifdef NX_TRANS_TEST
+        fprintf(stderr, "CheckAuthorization: Going to set authorization with loadauth [%d].\n",
+                    loadauth);
+        #endif
+
+        if (authorization_file)
+        {
+            #ifdef NX_TRANS_TEST
+            fprintf(stderr, "CheckAuthorization: Disabling local host access.\n");
+            #endif
+
+            DisableLocalHost();
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            /*
+             * Enable host-based authentication only if
+             * the authorization file was not specified
+             * either on the command line or in the env-
+             * ironment.
+             */
+
+            #ifdef NX_TRANS_TEST
+            fprintf(stderr, "CheckAuthorization: Enabling local host access.\n");
+            #endif
+
+            EnableLocalHost();
+        }
+
+        /*
+         * Avoid the 'unused variable' warning.
+         */
+
+        loadauth = loadauth;
+
+#else /* #ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH */
+
 	if (loadauth > 0)
 	{
 	    DisableLocalHost(); /* got at least one */
@@ -233,6 +439,8 @@
 	}
 	else if (loadauth == 0 || !loaded)
 	    EnableLocalHost ();
+
+#endif /* #ifdef NX_TRANS_AUTH */
     }
     if (name_length) {
 	for (i = 0; i < NUM_AUTHORIZATION; i++) {