http://major.io/2012/07/14/x-forwarding-over-ssh-woes-display-is-not-set/ Words of wisdom from a Linux engineer focused on information security Sat, 18 May 2013 16:08:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://major.io/2012/07/14/x-forwarding-over-ssh-woes-display-is-not-set/#comment-60119 Toghe Wed, 08 May 2013 08:47:10 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3605#comment-60119 THANKS!!!!!!!!!

]]> http://major.io/2012/07/14/x-forwarding-over-ssh-woes-display-is-not-set/#comment-50672 Eddy Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:14:48 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3605#comment-50672 Thanks a lot

]]> http://major.io/2012/07/14/x-forwarding-over-ssh-woes-display-is-not-set/#comment-32505 anon Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:38:07 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3605#comment-32505 Thank you!!

]]> http://major.io/2012/07/14/x-forwarding-over-ssh-woes-display-is-not-set/#comment-29110 Chris Snell Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:51:21 +0000 http://rackerhacker.com/?p=3605#comment-29110 I’ve run into something similar with disk quotas on users’ home directories. xauth is nice enough to open the file for writing before checking if there’s enough disk space, thereby zeroing out the file when it tries to write it. Suddenly existing X connections that worked a few minutes ago start complaining because their magic cookie is gone :(. Luckily, our home directories are stored on volumes that have easily recoverable snapshots.

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