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Bug#48199: marked as done (xbase-clients: [xauth] can't handle IP changes)

Your message dated Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:09:08 +0200
with message-id <4854EA44.6060403@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line closing some old wontfix bugs that we don't need to keep open
has caused the Debian Bug report #48199,
regarding xbase-clients: [xauth] can't handle IP changes
to be marked as done.

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Subject: xbase-clients: xauth can't find key
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 3.3.5-1
Severity: grave

Observe and shudder:

[tornado;~]-5> xauth list
tornado.mors.net:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  1b5f2044526f3f110405023c7570280b
tornado/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  1b5f2044526f3f110405023c7570280b
tornado.mors.net:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  866b2321b577e426699f0b658f1d4fc8
tornado/unix:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  866b2321b577e426699f0b658f1d4fc8
[tornado;~]-6> xauth nextract - tornado.mors.net:0
No matches found, authority file "-" not written

xauth can't find the cookie, which obviously is in there. This broke my
X setup quite badly.

It seems the problem is simple: I changed the IP address of this machine,
but when creating a new cookie xauth doesn't change the IP address of
the cookie but continues to use the entry with the old ID. However when
extracting the cookie it will only look for the entry with the new IP
(it does a gethostbyname() apparently). As a result I can no longer
extract my cookie.

On a related note: where does xauth get the full domain name for those
cookies? That host is no longer in DNS with the IP listed in the cookie,
but xauth still manages to fully qualify it..

Wichert.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux tornado 2.2.12 #1 Tue Oct 5 21:15:52 CEST 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii  cpp             2.95.2-0pre3   The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  libc6           2.1.2-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libncurses4     4.2-3.4        Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  xlib6g          3.3.5-1        shared libraries required by X clients
ii  zlib1g          1.1.3-4        compression library - runtime

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This bug has been marked as "wontfix" for a while, and I don't think it
is worth keeping it open. So as part of cleaning the BTS, I am just
closing it.

Cheers
Brice

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