Hey guys,
I was fooling around with anaconda over the weekend running on a remote
machine using X11 port forwarding through SSH. Everything seems to work
fine except for there is one small bug if you try to run it with root
priviledges.
I looked through the code and found there is a line which changes the
Xauth file to point at the wrong place:
if os.environ.has_key('HOME'):
os.environ['XAUTHORITY'] = os.environ['HOME'] + '/.Xauthority'
..
I've attached a patch which will check to make certain that SSH_TTY isn't
set in the shell (which should indicate that this is a remote session)
before reassigning the Xauth path. It works with OpenSSH but I haven't
tried it with any other flavours.
--Patrick.
--- anaconda.bak Mon Jun 30 11:02:39 2003
+++ anaconda Mon Jun 30 11:09:55 2003
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
# Silly GNOME stuff
-if os.environ.has_key('HOME'):
+if os.environ.has_key('HOME') and not os.environ.has_key('SSH_TTY'):
os.environ['XAUTHORITY'] = os.environ['HOME'] + '/.Xauthority'
os.environ['HOME'] = '/tmp'
os.environ['LC_NUMERIC'] = 'C'
