[17358] in Athena Bugs
slogin X forwarding glitch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sat Nov 6 18:31:48 1999
Message-Id: <199911062331.SAA12864@mint-square.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 18:31:30 -0500
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
I just logged into mint-square and got an error:
% slogin x.dialup.mit.edu
jfc@x.dialup.mit.edu's password:
Could not create xauth directory /tmp/xauth-jfc-12189: File exists
Disabling X forwarding.
mint-square:~ > echo $$
12189
mint-square:~ > ls -ld /tmp/xauth-jfc-12189
drwx------ 2 jfc mit 512 Nov 5 06:10 /tmp/xauth-jfc-12189
It is likely that I logged in at 6:10 on Friday morning. Apparently
the xauthority directory is not cleaned up on logout. I see a total
of 8 stale directories of mine for an expected login failure rate of
about .03% (8 used/30000 possible PIDs).
I think it would be better behavior for ssh to rmdir the directory
and retry. The directory is empty.
jfc
