XAuth, the supposed competitor to Facebook Connect that made headlines yesterday, turns out to be less a competitor and more powerful than anyone realized. We spoke to one of its key creators ...

XAuth could offer “a lot more performance for the sites,” said Joseph Smarr, a social Web engineer at Google who helped develop the standard. Supporting the XAuth standard fits well into ...

I recently installed Fedora Core 1 and have been tinkering around. I've noticed that when there isn't a non-localhost MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE entry for my machine in .Xauthority, I can't run X apps ...

XAuth is actually a little different in its background tech to Facebook Connect, so it seems, but as a user you’d probably not notice. Where FC is designed to facilitate logging in to other ...

And it has the potential to do much more. Here’s how the official site, XAuth.org is describing the platform: XAuth is an open platform for extending authenticated user services across the web.

I've been using Ubuntu 10.04 for awhile, and suddenly I'm getting messages like this: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. when I'm sshing to machines via ...