Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:29:28 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: thierry@herbelot.com Subject: Re: OpenSSH_3.4p1 sshd does not set XAUTHORITY Message-ID: <200208192029.g7JKTSXs081763@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200208191943.31694.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <XFMail.20020819102417.jdp@polstra.com> <200208191943.31694.thierry@herbelot.com>
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In article <200208191943.31694.thierry@herbelot.com>,
Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wrote:
>
> after searching in some mailing lists, I've found that adding :
>
> setenv XAUTHORITY ~/.Xauthority
>
> to the .login file on the machine I'm logging in has solved this problem
Thanks, that does solve the problem. I'm not sure whether it's
correct, though. In the past, I did set XAUTHORITY like that in my
.bash_profile, but then at some point when OpenSSH was upgraded I had
to remove it because it broke X11 forwarding. Now I have to add it
back again? I suspect there's something more basic wrong with the
current version of OpenSSH or with PAM.
Anyway, I've added a couple of lines which set it only if it wasn't
set before, and that seems to work OK until a better fix comes
along.
: ${XAUTHORITY:=$HOME/.Xauthority}
export XAUTHORITY
John
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John Polstra
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa
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