Re: X gnuclient over ssh?
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Michael Sperber yowled:
Right. But for the connection to carry the cookie, it needs access
to
the cookie. In the setup out here, ssh stores it in a file referenced
by the XAUTHORITY environment variable.
sams[5] printenv XAUTHORITY
/tmp/ssh-m2s3yDrk/cookies
... and this has changed between OpenSSH-2.x and 3.x. In 2.x, you get an
XAUTHORITY like that. In 3.x, XAUTHORITY is left unchanged from its
standard setting, which means that in the common case of a shared $HOME,
the Xauthority containing the ssh cookie is automatically accessible by
XEmacs.
Solution: upgrade to 3.0.2p1 and watch the silly ssh-{blah} directories
fade away (well, for that purpose, anyway; the ssh-agent still makes
them for its socket).
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