RE: Xterm issues

Hi all,  

As a follow up, I wanted to let you know that Duncan's suggestion worked and I am now able to bring up both xclock and the Oracle Installer. I was unable to ssh directly into the oracle account for security reasons, which is why I was performing the switch user. Therefore, it seems like my problem was a security issue related to X authentication  

Thanks for all your help      

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Lawie, Duncan
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 7:12 AM To: 'mschmitt_at_uchicago.edu'; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Xterm issues  

Mike,  

there are a couple of extra steps ...  

ssh -X sunhost  

# get a list of X auth info

$> xauth list

sunhost/unix:11 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 70f1a1a3f444272ae0fa5b388b0b3f49 sunhost/unix:10 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 1827878ae62fd34205dfef870c85bf6b

# check your display and extract the matching auth

$> echo $DISPLAY

localhost:10.0

$> xauth nextract - sunhost/unix:10

0100 000c 6c6e6c3930642d3030303261 0002 3130 0012 4d495 ...

# switch user to Oracle and set your display

ora> export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0

# add the auth info

ora> xauth nmerge - <CR>

# paste the long key from the nextract above and hit return (twice)

ora> xclock

# Success ! (hopefully).  

Cheers,

Duncan.  

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