need help with mit magic cookie i m trying to turn on xauthorization using mit magic cookie on my servers cpu heads hp rx xterminals but i m running into a couple of problems first at least one of our applications maple doesn t seem to understand how to deliver the magic cookie and won t run on a display with authorization turned on second we have people with client software on remote machines and i really don t want to hassle them with having to copy their xauthority file to the remote machine assuming that the clients there support xauthorization so what i would like to do is turn on mit magic cookie by default with non privileged users able to turn it off dropping back to host based authorization yes i know how to turn it off by changing the xconfig file for the heads and the client authorize setting for the xterminals but non privileged users can t do this i ve checked with the hp support line and there doesn t appear to be a way can anyone confirm this or do you know of a way to accomplish what i want btw i m running hpux and vue thanks in advance rick rick mcteague electrical engineering department speed scientific school university of louisville louisville ky internet sysrick starbase spd louisville edu disclaimer i m a stand up comedian if anyone takes me seriously i m doing something wrong
