What i think i will do is to add a cookie and a switch in the navbar where the user can set site animations to on or off. After doing this, x11 forwarding works, but its a nonoptimal solution since the cookie values change each session. Hi all, i followed this automatic login to virtual console tutorial and this autostart x at login tutorial to get my account logged in and start x automatically, everything works great, except that when i try to run a x related program in shell, i get errors, like. Ssh x11 forwarding with sudo and missing magic cookies.
If you find the x server process in ps youll usually see it was started with an auth argument specifying the path to the cookie file, such as. I get this errorinvalid mit magic cookie 1 key when running a program with sudo in ubuntu examplesudo gedit etcprofile. If youre looking to enable sudo open up xorg programs, yet, you prefer not to include the entire home folder as. The x servers copy of the cookie is not stored in your home directory, since its not associated with your user, but in the system files. Browse other questions tagged software installation 17. What i think i will do is to add a cookie and a switch in the navbar where the user can set site animations to on or. You can control the servers host list with the xhost program. X11 strikes back mitmagiccookie 1 data did not match. Googling led me to try extracting and copying mitmagiccookie1 values from my regular users session into roots via a combination of xauth list run as normal user and xauth add run as root. Check the magic cookie on the remote shell, printenv display and look the cookie that matches that display, xauth list. I get this errorinvalid mitmagiccookie1 key when running a program with sudo in ubuntu examplesudo gedit etcprofile. Ive been messing with my systems all morning and it wasnt until i found your post that i was able to solve my issue.
Solved invalid mitmagiccookie1 key arch linux forums. Notably the default configuration of debian gnulinux is to disable the x server listening on the tcp port. The xhost program is used to add and delete host names or user names to the list allowed to make. Then you can add the remotes magic cookie to your local machines xauth held info with xauth add the info you looked up. Ask ubuntu is a question and answer site for ubuntu users and developers. Invalid mitmagiccookie1 key when trying to run program.
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