From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu May 10 14:38:24 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DF7FCB8F5 for ; Thu, 10 May 2018 14:38:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A677A8D50D for ; Thu, 10 May 2018 14:38:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06703718084; Thu, 10 May 2018 09:38:16 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth To: Matthias Apitz , "James B. Byrne" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <587e3b37-c5c7-4af2-80e2-f7c040a4d221@unixarea.de> From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: <7edbad31-8ac8-9c27-2536-9a9a37a579b6@kicp.uchicago.edu> Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 09:38:16 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <587e3b37-c5c7-4af2-80e2-f7c040a4d221@unixarea.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 14:38:24 -0000 On 05/10/18 09:00, Matthias Apitz wrote: > On Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:34:27 CEST, James B. Byrne > wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 9, 2018 14:09, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> >> What is the ownership of and permissions on .Xauthority on the remote >> host? >> > > It's owned by me, created as new if not there, but with size=0. Did you check that you are not up against hard quota, and the filesystem is not full? I already suggested that, but my message seems to miss your attention. One thing you can try on remote host is: dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.dat bs=1024 count=1 if that creates 1 kB ~/test.dat file, neither quota nor filesystem full is on your way. If that file has zero size, then you are hit by one of the above. Another possibility on multi-user system when this works for others but not for you is if you as UNIX user is prohibited [X]-forwarding by sysadmin (-"fascist"). I as sysadmin only twice during last decade had to restrict one single user from doing something, but it still is the possibility. Valeri > > matthias > > > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++