gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 05:20:50PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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?

Scratch build and a quick set of instructions on how to test/exercise it?