[PATCH v2] xauth: improve to handle FamilyWild necessary for GDM/XDMCP/SSH. #43425

[Dr. Tilmann Bubeck]

Alan,

thanks for handing over maintainership for xauth. Yes, I will read the  
given documents and take care of it.

Kind regards,
  Tilmann Bubeck




On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:09:20 +0100, Alan Coopersmith  
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 10/19/12 02:27 AM, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote:
>> Alan,
>>
>> I would step up to be the maintainer for xauth if no one else is  
>> willing to do so.
>
> I haven't seen anyone else show any interest in xauth in the two months  
> since
> you said that, so I guess you're it.  Enjoy!
>
> If you don't already have a freedesktop.org account, you'll need one:
> 	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests
>
> And you'll probably want to read up on the X.Org Development practices:
> 	http://www.x.org/wiki/DeveloperStart
> (though not everything in that page is fully up to date)
>
> And for details on the Xauth mechanisms, see:
> 	http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXau/tree/README
> 	http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man3/Xau.3.xhtml
>
> (For instance, note that first one describes FamilyWild as being  
> originally
>  intended solely for XDMCP communication, not for storing in .Xauthority  
> files.)