On 03/14/12 08:24 AM, gene heskett wrote:
I was pointed at the xauth command to fix this, but that man page has to
rank near the top for all time obtuseness, and when executed on the non-
working machine, returns:
gene@lathe:~$ pwd
/home/gene
gene@lathe:~$ xauth list
xauth: creating new authority file /home/gene/.Xauthority
gene@lathe:~$ cat .Xauthority
cat: .Xauthority: No such file or directory
That's a misleading message, fixed a couple years ago in the xauth sources:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xauth/commit/?id=1c701094169b6e33f7faf21a269e949bf134a326
and included in xauth-1.0.5 and later releases.
Also note that a number of systems now no longer use $HOME/.Xauthority but
instead set the XAUTHORITY environment variable in your session to a
session specific file in /var for a variety of reasons, and if you're trying
to access xauth cookies from outside that session you'll need to find the
XAUTHORITY value in that session to match it.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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