Logging in via X in multiple places

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Tue Feb 6 15:40:15 EST 2007



xauth by default already knows to use your ~/.Xauthority
file and is already prepared to deal with synchroniztion
issues using (some sort of) file locking.  But all of that
is defeated by any command of this form:

   xauth > ~/.Xauthority

...which is going to cause the shell to stomp (some or
all of) your ~/.Xauthority before xauth even gets a chance
to execute.

Just say:

   xauth blah blah blah

...on each host without all that redirection stuff and
the right things will (should?)  happen.
 


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