[26849] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.4.26: x-forwarding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin W Chen)
Thu May 11 13:04:27 2006
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:01:02 -0400
From: Kevin W Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
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System name: scyther.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.4.26 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
SSH with X-forwarding.
What's wrong:
Logging in results in a message that X-forwarding is disabled, even
though it still works:
kchen@moltres:~$ ssh -X scyther.mit.edu
Last login: Thu May 11 12:34:37 2006 from stata-two-ninety.mit.edu
Athena Server (linux) Version 9.4.26 Tue Mar 28 02:00:58 EST 2006
Could not create xauth directory /tmp/xauth-kchen-29089: File exists
Disabling X forwarding.
[~ scyther]% ls -ld /tmp/xauth-kchen-29089
drwx------ 2 kchen mit 4.0K May 10 19:16 /tmp/xauth-kchen-29089/
[~ scyther]% echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
X-forwarding does still work despite the error message.
What should have happened:
No error message should have been printed.
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