On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:41:35 +0100, Stefan Voelkel wrote: > Package: xauth > Version: 1:1.0.4-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream patch > > > When using GDM via XDMCP, for examle when accessing GDM via > vncserver->XDMCP->localhost, ssh is no longer able to forward X11. > > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxterm Xt error: Can't open display: > localhost:10.0 > > The problem is, that xauth is unable to deal with the Family "FamilyWild" which > is used by GDM in XDMCP to store the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 for the user. > > Attached are two patches, one for 1.0.4-1 and one for 1.0.7-1. The original > Patch is by Dr. Tilmann Bubeck. > > Upstream Bug is at > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43425 > > FWIW, Redhat also has a bug for this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505545 > Why does gdm do that? How is that not a gdm bug? Cheers, Julien
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