I. OVERVIEW The xauth program is used to edit and display the authorization information used in connecting to the X server. The underlying "Authorization Protocol for X" is described in the README file of the libXau module of X11. II. BUILDING Use "./autogen.sh" to configure the package and "make" to compile it. A black box check for the correctness of the package can be initiated by "make check" (make sure to install "cmdtest" from http://liw.fi/cmdtest/). The installation is done by "make install". III. COMMUNICATION All questions regarding this software should be directed at the Xorg mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Please submit bug reports to the Xorg bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg The master development code repository can be found at: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xauth http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xauth For patch submission instructions, see: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches For more information on the git code manager, see: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage