Re: xauth problem in potato

[Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>]

> /usr/bin/X11/xauth:  unable to open tmp file "/tmp/Xauthef4473-n"
> /usr/bin/X11/xauth:  unable to write authority file /tmp/Xauthef4473-n
> 
> and X11 forwarding does not work. This file (Xauthef4473-n) exists and has the following
> permissions:
> -rw-------    1 myname  users  
> 
> Any ideas how to solve this problem ?

what are the permissions on /tmp?  they should be mode 1777 like this:

heyzeus(larry)$ ls -dl /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  10 root     root         3072 Mar  3 09:20 /tmp

adam.