Okay, I'll try that, but a quick question: should an xauth problem result
in failures for every X application I try to run? Other applications
(other than emacsclient) run just fine.
As Dan suggested, I ran ssh -v, and this is what I got:
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| ezra: ~ > ssh -v joel@hostname
| OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips-beta4 10 Nov 2009
| debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
| debug1: Applying options for *
| debug1: Connecting to 'name removed' port 22.
| debug1: Connection established.
| debug1: identity file /home/joel/.ssh/identity type -1
| debug1: identity file /home/joel/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
| debug1: identity file /home/joel/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
| debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.2
| debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.2 pat OpenSSH*
| debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
| debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.2
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
| debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
| debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
| debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
| debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
| debug1: Host '<name removed>' is known and matches the RSA host key.
| debug1: Found key in /home/joel/.ssh/known_hosts:2
| debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
| debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
| debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
| debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
| debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
| debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
| Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_500' not found
|
| debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
| Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_500' not found
|
| debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information
|
|
| debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
| debug1: Offering public key: /home/joel/.ssh/id_rsa
| debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277
| debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
| debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
| debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
| debug1: Entering interactive session.
| debug1: Sending environment.
| debug1: Sending env XMODIFIERS = @im=none
| debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8
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Thanks,
Joel