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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2018 09:38:16 -0500
From:      Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh -X remote does not work due to problem with xauth
Message-ID:  <7edbad31-8ac8-9c27-2536-9a9a37a579b6@kicp.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <587e3b37-c5c7-4af2-80e2-f7c040a4d221@unixarea.de>
References:  <mailman.103.1525953601.52518.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <587e3b37-c5c7-4af2-80e2-f7c040a4d221@unixarea.de>

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On 05/10/18 09:00, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:34:27 CEST, James B. Byrne 
> <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 9, 2018 14:09, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>
>> What is the ownership of and permissions on .Xauthority on the remote
>> host?
>>
> 
> It's owned by me, created as new if not there, but with size=0.

Did you check that you are not up against hard quota, and the filesystem 
is not full? I already suggested that, but my message seems to miss your 
attention. One thing you can try on remote host is:

dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.dat bs=1024 count=1

if that creates 1 kB ~/test.dat file, neither quota nor filesystem full 
is on your way. If that file has zero size, then you are hit by one of 
the above.

Another possibility on multi-user system when this works for others but 
not for you is if you as UNIX user is prohibited [X]-forwarding by 
sysadmin (-"fascist"). I as sysadmin only twice during last decade had 
to restrict one single user from doing something, but it still is the 
possibility.

Valeri

> 
> matthias
> 
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