[pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Apr 19 12:45:42 PDT 2010


On 19 Apr 2010, Lennart Poettering outgrape:

> On Fri, 16.04.10 21:02, Jan Braun (janbraun at gmx.de) wrote:
>> xterms ssh'd to otheruser at localhost .
>
> Why would you ssh to the local machine?

'cos it forwards your X cookie and authentication agent connection for
you. (Of course you can do the X cookie with pam_xauth.so, but that is
both rather new and also doesn't forward your authentication connection
for you.)



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