That doesn't seem to be working either. Maybe there is something else going on? Notice the "X11 connection rejected" error:
[mat...@quadzilla ~]$ ssh -Y emat...@aerogold emat...@aerogold's password: Last login: Thu Mar 18 14:51:42 2010 from quadzilla.aero.nd.edu X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. xhost: unable to open display "localhost:10.0" [emat...@aerogold ~]$ echo $XAUTHORITY XAUTHORITY: Undefined variable. thanks, eric --- On Thu, 3/18/10, Carson Gaspar <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Carson Gaspar <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] significant delay for afs user to login as root via su > To: "David S. Goldberg" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Ken Hornstein" <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected] > Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 2:03 PM > David S. Goldberg wrote: > >> - Assuming you're using ssh (I am guessing that > you are), convince sshd > >> to write your Xauthority > information somewhere else, like a file > >> in /tmp (and make sure your > XAUTHORITY environment variable is correct). > >> I would guess this is possible, > but I don't know if there's an easy > >> way to do it. > > > > I do this with the following code in ~/.ssh/rc: > > > > if [ "$DISPLAY" = "" ]; then exit 0 ; fi > > if [ ! -d /tmp/.${USER} ]; then # I actually don't > reference $USER - > > > > # just put your own ID there. > > /bin/sh -c "umask 77 ; mkdir > /tmp/.${USER}" ; > XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.${USER}/.Xauthority; > > Please don't use that code if you want something robust. > Use something like the below (tossed off in a few seconds, > so take with a grain of salt): > > unset XAUTHORITY > if test ! -d "/tmp/.${USER}"; then > (umask 77; echo mkdir "/tmp/.${USER}") > && \ > XAUTHORITY="/tmp/.${USER}/.Xauthority" > else > touch "/tmp/.${USER}/.Xauthority" > && \ > XAUTHORITY="/tmp/.${USER}/.Xauthority" > fi > if test -z "${XAUTHORITY}"; then > # Something is wrong > test -t 2 && echo "Could not set > XAUTHORITY" 1>&2 > fi > > -- Carson > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
