.Xauthority issue

[Colin Law]

On 3 October 2013 09:36, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 3 October 2013 08:00, Mauro <mrsanna1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2 October 2013 20:28, Marc Deslauriers <marcdeslauriers at videotron.ca>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 13-10-02 02:17 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>>> > I'm running Ubuntu 13.04. I've read on the Web that the .Xauthority file
>>> > in my
>>> > home directory is used to store credentials in cookies used by xauth for
>>> > authentication of X sessions. Meaning I should probably just leave it
>>> > alone.
>>> > But what about all the other .Xauthority-like files also in my home
>>> > directory
>>> > with names like .Xauthority.0GWM1W, .Xauthoirity.0TJG2W, etc. What are
>>> > they
>>> > and can I safely delete them?
>>> >
>>>
>>> You can delete them. Previous versions of lightdm incorrectly created
>>> backups,
>>> but shouldn't anymore.
>>>
>>
>> lightdm in ubuntu 13.04 still creates backups.
>
> It seems to have been fixed in 13.10.

But unfortunately it has introduced this bug (or reintroduced the
symptom for a different reason)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1036830
(Can't login after shelling in remotely using ssh -X)

Colin

>
> Colin