[libvirt] [PATCH] virnetsocket: pass XAUTORITY for ssh connection

Christian Franke nobody at nowhere.ws
Mon Nov 28 12:15:25 UTC 2011


When spawning an ssh connection, the environment variables
DISPLAY, SSH_ASKPASS, ... are passed. However XAUTHORITY,
which is neccessary if the .Xauthority is in a non default
place, was not passed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Franke <nobody at nowhere.ws>
---
 src/rpc/virnetsocket.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c b/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c
index b733095..2747f66 100644
--- a/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c
+++ b/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ int virNetSocketNewConnectSSH(const char *nodename,
     virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "SSH_AUTH_SOCK");
     virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "SSH_ASKPASS");
     virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "DISPLAY");
+    virCommandAddEnvPass(cmd, "XAUTHORITY");
     virCommandClearCaps(cmd);
 
     if (service)
-- 
1.7.6.1




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