I've been struggling with this problem on Solaris for a while. Your bug report clued me into what was going on. Thanks for reporting it. I agree that the default should be changed under Ubuntu.
Bernie du Breuil -- (603) 381-6337 Home, 646-4108 Work Upper Valley Peace & Justice Group === United Valley Interfaith Project Another World is Possible --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Andrew Schulman <launchpad-and...@sneakemail.com> wrote: From: Andrew Schulman <launchpad-and...@sneakemail.com> Subject: [Bug 358612] Re: X11 forwarding fails (Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE) To: bmrcld...@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 6:02 PM Bernie, thanks. You are correct, XAuthLocation wasn't correctly set, and this was the cause of the problem. I didn't set XAuthLocation at all, so ssh used the default value, which ssh_config(5) says is /usr/bin/X11/xauth. But in Ubuntu xauth is /usr/bin/xauth. Setting XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth in my ssh config solved the problem. Since xauth is /usr/bin/xauth and not /usr/bin/X11/xauth in Ubuntu, it seems that Ubuntu's openssh-client should change its default value of XAuthLocation. Debian solves this by making /usr/bin/X11 a symlink to . , but that seems like an overbroad solution for just this problem. Thanks, Andrew. -- X11 forwarding fails (Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358612 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- X11 forwarding fails (Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
