2014-08-19, 18:03
If you do it again, just delete .Xauthority, and it will be re-created with the correct permissions when you log in.
2014-08-19, 20:00
(2014-08-19, 18:03)black_eagle Wrote: If you do it again, just delete .Xauthority, and it will be re-created with the correct permissions when you log in.
That was what I presumed. Deleting will do the trick. Interesting thing...gonna take a look at this file, too. Just for interest.
I read this:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/300682/wh...ority-file
And I think a 'chmod' to this file (with the specific numbers...maybe 777 or 666) would do the trick, too, as every user is allowed to write things to this file then.
But I´m not sure and the most important thing is, that it works again
Greetings
2014-08-19, 20:12
(2014-08-19, 20:00)David1977 Wrote: And I think a 'chmod' to this file (with the specific numbers...maybe 777 or 666) would do the trick, too, as every user is allowed to write things to this file then.
But I´m not sure and the most important thing is, that it works again
Greetings
That would be a security issue. The .Xauthority file is basically a magic number used to identify the owner of an X session so that other people can't hijack it. If you are running an X session and I am logged in to the same machine, I can't access your X session unless I become the owner of the .Xauthority file.
This is not such a big deal with a home PC, but in a multi-user, multi-seat setup it would allow anyone to change the owner and therefore make your X session accessible.
