Created attachment 929 [details]
Original script from our Solaris cluster

The plain old script which we used on Solaris since years. Usage is quite easy:
Run it. If the auth. is then SUN-DES-1 then everything is OK and you can add
users via % xhost +theusername@ # to your display...

Created attachment 930 [details] [review]
Patch for 2004-09-17-trunk

Patch checked-in...

/cvs/xorg/xc/ChangeLog,v  <--  ChangeLog
new revision: 1.377; previous revision: 1.376
/cvs/xorg/xc/programs/scripts/Imakefile,v  <--  Imakefile
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2
/cvs/xorg/xc/programs/scripts/xauth_switch_to_sun-des-1.cpp,v  <-- 
xauth_switch_to_sun-des-1.cpp
initial revision: 1.1
Mailing the commit message to xorg-commit@pdx.freedesktop.org...

... marking bug as FIXED.

Roland, please change your script to run with dump old /bin/sh.
ksh is not available everywhere. ksh93 comes with a funny license which causes
most open source vendors to not include it. 

Egbert Eich wrote:
> Roland, please change your script to run with dump old /bin/sh.
> ksh is not available everywhere. ksh93 comes with a funny license which causes
> most open source vendors to not include it.

Erm, I already said sndirsch that this is on my list.
I've used up this weekend's Xorg-work-quota with hunting down DBE (double-buffer
extension) examples (as noone else cared to help Sebastien in
xorg@freedesktop.org) and then adding server-side support in Xprt (see bug
1664).
Next batch workload on my list is Debian-release and user2user-auth (which
includes fixing this script to work on Linux (the shell interpreter stuff can be
solved via CPP, either ksh or bash are mandatory - plain Bourne shell goes mad
with command output containing special shell token (design problem in Bourne
shell)) and playing around with Kerb5 support).

OK, I've just opened this to remind you to do that.
You probably should have done this before you've committed this stuff.
If one of the Xprint haters come across this he will give you a bad time
again.

Egbert Eich wrote:
> You probably should have done this before you've committed this stuff.

Erm... the script works on Solaris and a bunch of other Unices. It's just that
"#!/bin/ksh" sticks at the first line of the script (which can be fixed with
some CPP-kungfu to make the "there-is-only-bash-which-matters"-club (also known
as "any-non-GNU-license-is-bad-and-the-author-must-sit-in-boiling-oil"-club)
happy :) and that the script hasn't been tested on Linux for some time.

> If one of the Xprint haters come across this he will give you a bad time
> again.

Erm... why ? The SUN-DES-1 authentification is really not Xprint-specific or
anyway related to Xprint (except that it comes from Sun :) ...

The script still uses ksh ... 

still a ksh script.

Will this ever get fixed?  

Still things like this are required. :-( 
 
# get rid of ksh deps (X.Org #1407) 
rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth_switch_to_sun-des-1 
 

Well, I give up.

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

As far as I can tell this was never brought across in the modular merge.  Pretty sure no one's ever going to commit a fix to the monolith, so, WONTFIX.

This script lives in the modular tree in app/scripts/xauth_switch_to_sun-des-1.cpp