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Ole Tange
Asked: 2012-10-25 03:16:38 +0800 CST

Avoid /usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority

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In batch scripts I often log in to the same system through ssh multiple times. E.g.

seq 1000 | parallel -j0 -S server echo

This triggers a race condition giving the error:

/usr/bin/xauth:  error in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority

How can I avoid this?

ssh

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try to not forward X when you log in with ssh. You shouldn't really need it, do you?

    If you do not want to take out ForwardX11 true from your ~/.ssh/config (I am guessing that's where it got set), you can try adding -x to the command line.

    seq 1000 | parallel -j0 -S server -x echo
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  2. You could disable X-forwarding in your SSH config for this server.

    For instance in your $HOME/.ssh/config you could have

      Host server
             ForwardX11 no
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