- add entries to user's auth file
- remove entries from user's auth file
-This mechanism assumes that the superuser and the transport layer between
+This mechanism assumes that the superuser and the transport layer between
the client and the server is secure.
The sample implementation will use the xdm Display Manager to set up and
control the server's authorization file. Sites that do not run xdm will
-need to build their own mechanisms.
+need to build their own mechanisms.
Xdm uses a random key (seeded by the system time and check sum of /dev/kmem)
to generate a unique sequence of characters at 16 bytes long. This sequence
name non-NULL, data NULL - use the named authorization; get
data from that mechanism's default.
name non-NULL, data non-NULL - use the given authorization and data.
-
+
This interface is used by xdm and might also be used by any other
applications that wish to explicitly set the authorization information.