Sven Geggus wrote: Jim Rees <rees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, the question is why did X put that file in your home directory. That's > not where it belongs. I've got this in my .xinitrc: > > setenv XAUTHORITY /tmp/Xauthority`id -u` I agree, that ~/.Xauthority is probably not the best place for this file, but it is the default (at least in Debian). If it is expected behaviour that this will not work correctly with shared Homedirectories, I wonder why this did not cause me any trouble with NFS3 for many years. Are you sure it didn't cause you any trouble? You were giving root access to anyone who could snoop the Xauthority file off the wire. That's the main reason you don't want it in your home dir. As to why that's still the default, laziness I guess. Anyway I did not yet figure out how to globally change the XAUTHORITY Variable in kdm and ssh :( I don't use kdm. For ssh: % cat ~/.ssh/environment XAUTHORITY=/tmp/Xauthority1234 You might also have to fix /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
