Bug#389254: gksu: xxxx

Gustavo Noronha Silva kov at debian.org
Sun Sep 24 21:05:03 UTC 2006


Em Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:51:27 +0200
Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior at xs4all.nl> escreveu:

> However, when using the Cygwin X-server to display a Gnome desktop
> on my Windows machine and connect through ssh to an X session on a
> Debian Linux machine, giving DISPLAY=localhost:10.0, then gksu fails 
> with the following message:
> "X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server 
> shutdown)."
> The apparant reason for this is available on the ssh stderr:
> "X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication."
> 
> The simplest way to demonstrate this on a local console desktop is
> to use 'ssh -f -Y localhost xterm" and use both gksu and gksudo in
> that xterm.

I cannot reproduce it with 'gksudo', but yes with 'gksu', is that what
you mean?

Thanks!

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  Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
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