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23.1; Emacsclient fails with Rejected Authentication Over SSH

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From: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-bug-tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5434: marked as done (23.1; Emacsclient fails with Rejected
 Authentication Over SSH)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:50:03 +0000

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Your message dated Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:49:26 +0100
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and subject line Re: bug#5434: 23.1; Emacsclient fails with Rejected Authentication Over SSH
has caused the Emacs bug report #5434,
regarding 23.1; Emacsclient fails with Rejected Authentication Over SSH
to be marked as done.

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From: "Joel J. Adamson" <adamsonj <at> email.unc.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; Emacsclient fails with Rejected Authentication Over SSH
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:21:43 -0500

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Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org mailing list,
and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Having started an Emacs session on <remote-host> (the machine that
generate this bug report), logging in via ssh and attempting to bring up
an Emacs frame using 'emacsclient -c' on the local display yields

,----
| *ERROR*: Display localhost:10.0 can't be opened
`----

From Emacs.

,----
| $ emacsclient -c
`----

immediately yields

,----
| X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
`----

This completely disables X11 forwarding FOR EMACSCLIENT ONLY.
Gnome-terminal still works.  Changing default xauth does not help.
Deleting ~/.Xauthority on localhost and remote-host does not affect the
problem.

Basically emacsclient doesn't work over ssh.  Bummer!

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.1/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3)
 of 2009-12-03 on x86-5.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.10704000
configured using `configure  '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Org-Agenda Week Grid

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  epa-global-mail-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
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s e d SPC s o m e t h i n g , SPC b u t SPC i t SPC 
l o o k s SPC l i k e SPC I SPC c a n SPC o o n l y 
SPC j o i n SPC t h e SPC f o r u m SPC b y SPC c r 
e a t i n g SPC a SPC G o o g l e SPC a c c o u n t 
. SPC SPC I S-SPC w o u l d SPC p r e f e r SPC t o 
SPC t a k e SPC a a p M-D p a r t SPC i n SPC d s <backspace> 
i s c u s s i o n s SPC w o u M-D w i t h o u t SPC 
h a v i n g SPC a SPC g o o g l e M-b M-c SPC a c c 
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w a y SPC t o SPC d o SPC t h i s ? C-j C-j T h a n 
k s , C-j C-j J o e l C-c C-c C-x 5 0 M-x r e p o r 
t SPC e m a c s SPC SPC <return>

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Servedio Lab
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: "Joel J. Adamson" <adamsonj <at> email.unc.edu>, 5434 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 
	5434-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5434: 23.1; Emacsclient fails with Rejected Authentication
	Over SSH
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:49:26 +0100

Joel J. Adamson skrev 2010-01-26 16.52:
>>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Djärv<jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>  writes:
>
>      >  Anyway, one source for this problem is that the shell that runs
>      >  emacs -daemon has set XAUTHORITY in the environment to point to
>      >  some other file.  That environment variable isn't set when you ssh
>      >  in, so xauth writes to ~/.Xauthority
>
> I'm running GNOME on Fedora 12, so
> XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-joel...
>
> This seems to be GDM-related.  I will try to figure out how to configure
> GDM for this.
>
> When I ssh in 'echo $XAUTHORITY' returns empty (i.e. if I'm not sitting
> at the desk with my main workstation I can't find XAUTHORITY).  If I can
> run the commands you suggested, it works.
>

Good, we can close this.

	Jan D.

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