gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

[Adam Jackson]

On 1/3/12 12:22 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:

> You moved between networks, which caused your hostname to change [1].
> This meant that the xauth cookie for your current session no longer
> matched, because it embeds the hostname, because the spec says that's
> what you do.
>
> We set up X with two levels of authentication. The second is the
> traditional xauth cookie mechanism, but the first matches against UID
> instead [2]:
>
> % DISPLAY=:0 xhost
> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
> SI:localuser:ajax
>
> So this keeps normal users from being affected when the hostname
> changes. But once you've switched UID you fall back to the xauth cookie
> and things break.
>
> I wrote a patch for this once:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679486#c43
>
> And it got no conclusive testing or whatever, I forget. The patch itself
> is in package git, although not enabled in the libXau build:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libXau.git;a=commitdiff;h=bdfc287eca3dfeaf457d7607763beae782f0004b
>
> If someone wanted to test it, that'd rule.

Anybody?  Pretty please?

- ajax