Bug 911

Summary: Wishlist: Warn when unable to write .Xauthority
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Will Stephenson <lists>
Component: sshAssignee: OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME    
Severity: minor CC: djm, qianliguo2002
Priority: P1    
Version: 4.6p1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Will Stephenson 2004-08-13 19:33:09 AEST 
X11 forwarding fails when the remote disk is full, or when the .Xauthority file 
otherwise cannot be written.  There is no warning that this has happened, and 
the connection works, apart from that X11 apps refuse to start as they are not 
xauthed.   
 
It would be great if ssh could complain loudly when it was not able to set up x 
authentication. 
 
Thanks for all your hard work.
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2008-06-15 11:59:09 AEST 
It is xauth's responsibility to log errors on failure. The standard xorg distribution one certainly does (try "chown root.wheel .Xauthority") and these are visible via the SSH channel.
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2008-07-22 12:07:12 AEST 
Mass update RESOLVED->CLOSED after release of openssh-5.1