Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 09:53:57 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-display from laptop to desk Message-ID: <200007051653.JAA01200@ted.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:24:52 PDT." <200007031924.e63JOqn08344@ptavv.es.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > >A better solution to this is to redefine the XAUTHORITY variable >to point at your X login .Xauthority file. > >For sh and sons: >XAUTHORITY=/home/jfesler/.Xauthroity >export XAUTHORITY > >For csh and children: >setenv XAUTHORITY ~jfesler/.Xauthority This will break X11 forwarding under OpenSSH (even if you don't drag root into it). OpenSSH creates its own xauthority file in /tmp and points the XAUTHORITY envronment variable at it. I spent a whole day figuring out that setting XAUTHORITY manually in my .bashrc was my problem. I would recommend checking to see if XAUTHORITY is set first and initializing it to $HOME/.Xauthority only if no other program has set it. Resetting XAUTHORITY under ssh is perilous. Note that this will break X11 forwarding under the same login. (Under the ssh-1.2.27 port, setting XAUTHORITY is fine, but the future is OpenSSh on FreeBSD.) I recommend using sudo, too. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Faber faber@isi.edu USC/ISI Computer Scientist http://www.isi.edu/~faber (310) 448-9190 PGP Keys: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkeys.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 iD8DBQE5Y2glaUz3f+Zf+XsRAl0dAKCJkYPZyc4/JvLX9RddGtKZdB45FQCgtzoQ ojlPM55rgHqENtjoKrxIElA= =TE8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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