On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:24, Patrick Devine wrote:
> 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.
When this happens, don't you have $XAUTHORITY set already? That's
probably the better thing to check for not existing (basically,
XAUTHORITY needs to be set and this is making sure it is).
Jeremy
