x forwarding?

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 06:01:46 PM Alan Coopersmith did opine:

> On 03/14/12 08:24 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> > I was pointed at the xauth command to fix this, but that man page has
> > to rank near the top for all time obtuseness, and when executed on
> > the non- working machine, returns:
> > 
> > gene at lathe:~$ pwd
> > /home/gene
> > gene at lathe:~$ xauth list
> > xauth:  creating new authority file /home/gene/.Xauthority
> > gene at lathe:~$ cat .Xauthority
> > cat: .Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 
> That's a misleading message, fixed a couple years ago in the xauth
> sources:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xauth/commit/?id=1c701094169b6e33f
> 7faf21a269e949bf134a326 and included in xauth-1.0.5 and later releases.
> 
> Also note that a number of systems now no longer use $HOME/.Xauthority
> but instead set the XAUTHORITY environment variable in your session to
> a session specific file in /var for a variety of reasons, and if you're
> trying to access xauth cookies from outside that session you'll need to
> find the XAUTHORITY value in that session to match it.

Same exact CD used for install on both boxes.  Boxes identical except newer 
one has a slightly bigger HD.

shop.coyote.den has a /home/gene/.Xauthority
$cat .Xauthority
coyote.coyote.den0MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1�MB��Z��
                                            ��恪bshop12MIT-MAGIC-
COOKIE-1R�ȝ��T�(����+�jshop11MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-17d��r�u]��_y�shop10MIT-
MAGIC-COOKIE-1��|]���F�        .

But lathe.coyote.den does not have one.

$cat .Xauthority
cat: .Xauthority: No such file or directory

Consistency within a given distro would be nice and TBT it really is 
expected.  But this is turning into a crap shoot.  And in 77 years, the 
only thing I have learned about craps is that I do not know the first thing 
about playing it.

Any other ideas to check out folks?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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