Bug 911 - Wishlist: Warn when unable to write .Xauthority
Summary: Wishlist: Warn when unable to write .Xauthority
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: ssh (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6p1
Hardware: All All
: P1 minor
Assignee: OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list
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Reported: 2004-08-13 19:33 AEST by Will Stephenson
Modified: 2008-07-22 12:07 AEST (History)
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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