Re: [X2Go-Dev] [PATCH] [NX] Add patch: 052_nxcomp_macos10-nxauth-location.full+lite, change nxauth search location on Mac OS X to $NX_SYSTEM/nxauth to facilitate application bundle building.

• On 26.05.2012 02:07 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote:

do you need nxauth for client-side X2Go on Mac? Currently, nxauth only builds with the server-side nx-libs build (nx-libs-full). Or am I missing something?

nxauth is used as the local/client side X server authentication program (basically getting the auth cookie) on both Windows and Mac OS X, instead of xauth, by nxproxy. nxproxy *can* work without it by generating fake cookies, but I found it much more reliable with nxauth (and for what it's worth, on 10.4 using nxauth seems to be mandatory to connect to the X server.)

Yeah, sadly, nxauth builds within nx-X11 which is the "full" X server, but building it, pulling the binary + libNX_Xau.dylib out and redistributing is not a big deal.