Re: problem with .Xauthority files
On 10 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote:
> >
> > As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue
> > in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but
> > chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much
>
> The problem is that something would change the ownership back to root.root.
> I believe I fixed the problem but I am not yet certain.
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Andrew
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When you get problems with .Xauthority files, you should delete them and
then do xauth-b to rebuild them.
Anthony
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