On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:34:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since the last update do potato, i get the annoying error message connecting > sith ssh to my server: > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: unable to open tmp file "/home/marco/.Xauthority-n" > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: unable to write authority file > /home/marco/.Xauthority-n > > In addition, i cannot run vim anymore connecting to my machine from another > host. > Any idea on how to solve this annoying situation? > Thanks
Xauth is a more modern way to authenticate X clients to the X server than xhost. xhost is host/IP addr based, but xauth is based on keys of some type (don't really know :). I don't know why xauth is having problems creating those files in your home directory. It should be able to open them for writing, assuming you ran the command as marco. You can't run vim because your X server won't let them in. (you will notice that no X connections work, not even xdpyinfo.) You can use the xhost command to go back to the old host-based access control, or you can read the xauth(1) manpage and xauth list an appropriate cookie for the display you want to set up a connection to, then use xauth add to store the cookie in .Xauthority on the remote machine. for further reading, see Xsecurity(3). (which thinks it is Xsecurity(1), but the filename and location puts it in section 3 according to the man command...) -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
