Bug 14605

Summary:	xauth fails to remove cookie from .Xauthority
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Rene Uittenbogaard <ruittenbogaard>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
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Description Rene Uittenbogaard 2000-07-25 08:29:53 UTC

www:/home/users/webftp> xauth list
192.168.11.115:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  11532f7a79f196777810f706689cb41d
webtest.local.nl.11.168.192.in-addr.arpa:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 
845a3293a1239383efd8e80db42f297e
192.168.11.186:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  f4748eb4d8e13faf1ebc8a25925a20b2
192.168.11.167:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  54a8c3fe58cdd052df4834849b8ffe7f
www:/home/users/webftp> xauth remove
webtest.local.nl.11.168.192.in-addr.arpa:0
xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name
"webtest.local.nl.11.168.192.in-addr.arpa:0" in "remove" command

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-09-11 18:54:18 UTC

very strange. How did you manage to get such a strange hostname into your
.Xauthority file?  Maybe your network configuration is incomplete.

Comment 2 Rene Uittenbogaard 2000-09-12 08:02:02 UTC

The cookie was added using
xauth add <ip add> :0
I suppose there is a problem with the DNS resolution of the ip address, but
xauth should nevertheless be able to remove the cookie

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2001-07-28 11:31:31 UTC

I don't see this as a serious issue worth fixing if it is indeed
broke in the first place.