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author | Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> | 2005-09-28 19:47:31 +0000 |
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committer | Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> | 2005-09-28 19:47:31 +0000 |
commit | 7837232b33c19dbfe8271cffe0bdaa277dacb736 (patch) | |
tree | cfd5f48742f5e8e7b7d2156eae722f65357443cb | |
parent | 377b494577a924ee1621177933bee4bb5cc27fff (diff) |
add design and lbxproxy.def.
Copy first two paragraphs from man page.
-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | README | 15 |
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +2005-09-28 Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> + + * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): add design and lbxproxy.def. + + * README: Copy first two paragraphs from man page. diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 3f7d28d..f87ff42 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -81,3 +81,6 @@ lbxproxy_SOURCES = \ dist_man1_MANS = \ lbxproxy.man +EXTRA_DIST = \ + design \ + lbxproxy.def @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Applications that would like to take advantage of the Low Bandwidth +extension to X (LBX) must make their connections to an lbxproxy. +These applications need to know nothing about LBX, they simply connect +to the lbxproxy as if were a regular server. The lbxproxy accepts +client connections, multiplexes them over a single connection to the X +server, and performs various optimizations on the X protocol to make +it faster over low bandwidth and/or high latency connections. + +With regard to authentication/authorization, lbxproxy simply passes +along to the server the credentials presented by the client. Since X +clients will connect to lbxproxy, it is important that the user's +.Xauthority file contain entries with valid keys associated with the +network ID of the proxy. lbxproxy does not get involved with how +these entries are added to the .Xauthority file. The user is +responsible for setting it up. |