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diff --git a/libXau/README b/libXau/README index 9ee12e704..249a1a7a6 100644 --- a/libXau/README +++ b/libXau/README @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ This scheme involves changes to the following parts of the sample release: - add entries to user's auth file - remove entries from user's auth file -This mechanism assumes that the superuser and the transport layer between +This mechanism assumes that the superuser and the transport layer between the client and the server is secure. @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Description The sample implementation will use the xdm Display Manager to set up and control the server's authorization file. Sites that do not run xdm will -need to build their own mechanisms. +need to build their own mechanisms. Xdm uses a random key (seeded by the system time and check sum of /dev/kmem) to generate a unique sequence of characters at 16 bytes long. This sequence @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ There are three types of input: name non-NULL, data NULL - use the named authorization; get data from that mechanism's default. name non-NULL, data non-NULL - use the given authorization and data. - + This interface is used by xdm and might also be used by any other applications that wish to explicitly set the authorization information. |