5.1p1 and X11 forwarding failing

[lode leroy]

in reply to:

5.1p1 and X11 forwarding failing
http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2009-February/027183.html



I have the impression that SSH is running xauth with a filename in a temporary directory that does not exist:

local:~ $ ssh -vv user at remote
...
debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-VskgWb3776/xauthfile generate
:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200 2>/dev/null
...

remote:~ $ /usr/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-VskgWb3776/xauthfile generate :0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200
/usr/bin/xauth:  error in locking authority file /tmp/ssh-VskgWb3776/xauthfile

remote:~ $ mkdir /tmp/ssh-VskgWb3776
remote:~ $ /usr/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-VskgWb3776/xauthfile generate :0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200

/usr/bin/xauth:  creating new authority file /tmp/ssh-VskgWb3776/xauthfile


 		 	   		  
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