Solved: Kerberised NFS

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:56:43AM +0000, Peter Eriksson wrote:
> xscreensaver:
>   When $HOME goes away then xscreensaver will fail you launch the
>   password dialog application when you wish to login again (since
>   it can't read the .Xauthority file   in your $HOME so it will
>   not be allowed access to your X server). Blank window forever...
>   Solution: ssh in from another machine and 'kill' xscreensaver.

If your X implementation supports it, you should be able to work around
this by running "xhost +SI:localuser:username", which also grants access
to clients running under the specified user's UID.

HTH,

Nalin