Xpra: Ticket #211: Killing xpra requires password

Hello,

when trying to kill an xpra session that uses a password, the operation fails because it requires a password itself.

# xpra stop :2
password is required by the server
Failed to shutdown xpra at :2

Is that by design or not? I'd rather it was possible to kill the session without a password (because I can just use "kill" anyway so requiring a password doesn't make sense), but perhaps I'm missing something.

Thanks

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:24:09 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to invalid

This is by design, the server has no way of knowing if the user accessing the socket does have sufficient permissions to stop/kill the server.

The socket could be:

fully public: tcp
semi-public: unix domain socket with chmod, "shared" ssh limited account
private: everything else

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:48:32 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/211