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