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Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-02 Cached

Explains why X11 authentication cookies fail across hosts/containers due to hostname keying, and shows a one-line sed trick to rewrite the cookie family to FamilyWild (0xffff) so it matches any hostname.

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