Re: xauth problem

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] m0xt2LG-0007zaC@westgac3.dragon.com>,
 <tko@westgac3.dragon.com> wrote:
>I wish to thank all the responces which I received on my Xauthority problem. I
>went looking for 'ssh' when I read it in the thread, but wasn't able to find
>it in any package (bo system). Of note, I use the default 'bash' shell and
>checked the variables (as suggested) :
>
>XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
>
>I chased this down to a 'declare' statement in the /etc/profile file. Should I
>change the location of the declaration to the ~/.bash_profile file? (and
>change it to 'XAUTHORITY=~$USER/.Xauthority') ?

Well, I don't have that in my /etc/profile, but it might not be a standard
/etc/profile. Bash in fact does do this correctly:

$ declare -x FOO=~miquels
$ echo "$FOO"
/home/staff/miquels

But some ways of quoting and/or using $USER might cause it not to work.
Without seeing the exact line from your /etc/profile we cannot see what
might be the problem.

Mike.
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    miquels@cistron.nl  |  awake all night wondering if there is a doG


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