Trouble in accessing `/home/USERNAME/.Xauthority'

[NoOp]

On 03/17/2010 06:30 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> Because the authority has been moved to
>>> /var/run/gdm/auth-...-<user>-.../database
> 
>> Ummm... worked just fine for me on the test 9.10 test machine.
>> Further details please?
> 
> From a brand new Karmic VM:
> $ echo ${XAUTHORITY}
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-tomh0665-oM1IAa/database
> $ ps -ef | grep X | grep -v grep
> root ... tty7 ... /usrIbin/X ... -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-kniKIS/database ...
> 

And? Still confused by your comment. .Xauthority is created on any ssh
-X login to the machine. xauth
(http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/en/man1/xauth.1.html) can be
used to manage it - but I do not know enough about it to use it), and as
demonstrated the commands work just fine:

sudo lfwsetup
sudo ln -fs ~/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority
sudo chown USERNAME.root ~/.Xauthority
(you will have to replace USERNAME with your username)

and work in 9.10 and 10.04 (providing of course that an ~/.Xauthority
file exists first). So please clarify/justify:

"Step 4 will only work in Ubuntu pre 9.10."