[mythtv-users] Startup Frontend via SSH

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/28/2008 12:45 PM, David Brieck Jr. wrote:
> I am using the same user name locally as well as remotely. I do have
> the ~/.Xauthority and it does have binary stuff in it. If I try echo
> $XAUTHORITY I don't get any output, what should I be getting?
>
> I also tried ssh -x hostname and that doesn't seem to work either.
>
> I check my X log, and this is what I have in there many many times.
>
> AUDIT: Tue Jul 22 09:25:35 2008: 5514 X: client 16 rejected from local
> host (uid 1000)
>   Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
>
> Is there a way to turn off this check to see if that is indeed the problem?
>   

Shell in with an interactive session.  Then, on a console on the local 
(mythfrontend) system, run:

xauth list

then do the same from the ssh session and compare the output.  Chances 
are you'd see a couple lines for your host/display (hostname:0 with and 
without the /unix).  The important thing is that the cookie value (3rd 
column) is the same locally and through the ssh session.

If they're the same, check "man xauth" as I think I vaguely remember 
seeing some discussion of changing the way authority works on newer 
versions of X.org.  However, I'm not yet using the newest version, so I 
didn't pay much attention at the time.

Mike