Questions tagged [xauth]
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Where is the .Xauthority for GDM on Ubuntu 23.04?
According to the Ubuntu manpage for gdm
XAUTHORITY
Upon session startup, GDM sets the XAUTHORITY environment variable to a session-
specific file in /run/gdm3.
, but I don't see ...
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What is the purpose of files whose name starts with .xauth in Linux home directory? Is it safe to delete them? [closed]
I have lots of files (about 40) starting .xauth. Many of them are a few months old. What is their purpose? Is it safe to remove them?
The operating system is CentOS 7. Some file name examples: ....
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What are these .xauth files for in my home directory?
I don't recognize these files from previous Fedora versions (On 35 now):
-rw-------. 1 1000 1000 100 Nov 15 21:49 .xauthHhCXrs
-rw-------. 1 1000 1000 100 Nov 14 22:35 .xauthmDNgLB
Both contain at ...
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I need a working solution for "X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication." on a Rasbpian buster host with MacOS Big Sur client
Host: Raspberry Pi 4B
Host Display: Osoyoo 3.5" DSI Touch Screen
Host OS: Raspbian (Buster)
Client: MacBook Air 2011
Client OS: MacOS Big Sur
Client App: Terminal
Connection string: ssh -Y pi@...
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ssh -X to machine without any monitor to open a GUI?
I have two VMs running (One Ubuntu 20.04, one Fedora 30) and would like to open Firefox there. None of them has any kind of display attached. Never had.
Both are fresh and it doesn't matter much to me ...
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Xorg / X11: How to provide Cookie-based access to X Server using xauth?
I know the risk, I know there is ssh -X, etc etc. What I want is to be able from one remote machine (X client) to connect to my local machine (X server) on a user (cookie) basis.
I understood that ...
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"error in locking authority file" isn't fixed even after removing .Xautority file
I'm using MobaXterm and I see this error:
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/myusername/.Xauthority
right after the login and I even removed the file .Xauthority after googling ...
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Xauthority is missing the display number
When I run on my local machine (Ubuntu 18.10) xauth list the output is not showing the display number:
$ xauth list
c7h/unix: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 37bb744d95232b4e29aea1320b0a0e2d
#ffff#633768#: MIT-...
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VMWare Player cannot copy Xauthorization
I'm currently using an up-to-date Fedora 27 system, and I have download the VMWare Player .bundle file. Running it results in a successful installation, but the problem arises when I open the VMWare ...
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How to properly fix the 'error in locking authority file' when I try to start my VNC session
When I try to start my VNC using this command:
/usr/bin/vncserver -geometry 1900x1020
I get the following error:
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/maindir/.Xauthority
sh: line 1: /home/...
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Emacs only runs GUI when not sudo
I have installed emacs from ubuntu's software center and everything seems to work fine except for sudo emacs which instead of running the gui version, gives error No protocol specified Display :0 ...
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startx results in error "timeout in locking authority file /home/myaccount/.Xauthority"
About once a month, I try to start X windows on my local desktop with:
startx
but the terminal seems to hang, then gives the error:
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/myaccount/....
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View OpenGL version *of* a remote machine via ssh
I have a remote machine accessible via SSH and I want to use glxinfo to check it's GL version.
I already tried the following:
logging in with ssh -X or ssh -Y
setting DISPLAY=:0
setting DISPLAY=...
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IPSec VPN Routed LANs
Recently I changed from a home-run OpenVPN to a home-run Cisco (XAuth) IPSec VPN for more compatibility. However, I haven't found documentation on "pushing" routes from the IPSec server to clients. In ...
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PuTTY X11 forwarding: Unsupported authorisation protocol
I have a Ubuntu 14 running as the "Server" and am trying to use PuTTY on my windows machine as the "Client"
On the Server:
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes
On the Client:
PuTTY Configuration: ...
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