Bug 849

Summary: Document or fix untrusted X11 authority timeout
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: sshAssignee: Damien Miller <djm>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 3.8.1p1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Document timeout for untrusted X11 connections none

Description Orion Poplawski 2004-04-22 05:41:04 AEST 
The untrusted X11 authorization used by default only lasts 20 minutes (2 minutes
in 3.8).  Afterward 20 minutes of X11 inactivity, one gets the cryptic:

Xlib: connection to "localhost:11.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open display: localhost:11.0

Preferrably this should fixed, perhaps by generating a new key.  At the very
least, this behavior should be documented somewhere.
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2005-02-09 15:44:24 AEDT 
Created attachment 808 [details]
Document timeout for untrusted X11 connections

Good point. Here's a patch.
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2005-02-28 11:51:27 AEDT 
manpage fix applied. Thanks.
Comment 3 Darren Tucker 2006-10-07 11:36:17 AEST 
Change all RESOLVED bug to CLOSED with the exception of the ones fixed post-4.4.