Thanks for the analysis. I did try adding root and gdm /etc/passwd at the cygwin end and the query then worked.
I agree that this is a bug in GDM - I will see about posting a report there. Might be worth adding this to a FAQ in case GDM is not fixed. Richard -----Original Message----- From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk] Sent: 07 October 2009 19:18 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: Richard Evans Subject: Re: Cygwin/X server -query fails with recent versions of Gnome GDM On 30/09/2009 10:34, Richard Evans wrote: > Cygwin 1.7beta, cygcheck output attached. > > I am trying to start a remote session using: > > XWin -query host > > where the host is running GDM from Gnome 2.28. The connect fails. A > wireshark network snoop (attached) shows that GDM is sending Thanks for the packet capture, that helps a lot understanding what's happening here. > X_ChangeHosts requests with an address family of 5 (ServerInterpreted) > and a address like > > localuser:root > > XWin responds with a BadValue error and the connection attempt fails. I > speculate that XWin was compiled without support for the > ServerInterpreted address family. I don't think this speculation is well-founded. :-) So GDM is doing the equivalent of: $ xhost +si:localuser:root $ xhost +si:localuser:gdm ... which fails, I'm guessing for the not entirely unreasonable reason that these users don't exist. > I cannot find a workround for this. You might try adding users root and gdm in your cygwin installation (perhaps by adding them to /etc/passwd) If that works around the problem, I think it's probably a bug in GDM that it fails if these users don't exist. Even after reading the manpage formerly known as Xsecurity ('man 7 security') and the source, I'm really not clear about how this form of credentials are supposed to work, but it seems pretty clear that they can only work locally. Note that a server built with NO_LOCAL_CLIENT_CRED (or old enough to pre-date these credentials) will reject all si:localuser and si:localgroup credentials, so it seems GDM should be prepared for it to fail... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/