I'm using PuTTy and X11 forwarding (XMing) and I'm trying to simply log into a linux PC in my network, from which I want to launch graphical applications. I'm following this tutorial letter by letter. When I specify the hostname and enter my username, first of all I'm not asked for a password and secondly, I get the following output:
login as: stzanos
Last login: Thu Aug 29 17:02:14 2019 from <my pc>
/usr/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file
<other pc>/stzanos/.Xauthority
'abrt-cli status' timed out
-bash: <other pc>/stzanos/.bash_profile: Permission denied
-bash-4.2$I thought it might be XMing causing the problem, so I tried to ssh without X11 forwarding getting a similar result:
login as: stzanos
Last login: Thu Aug 29 17:04:58 2019 from <my pc>
'abrt-cli status' timed out
-bash: <other pc>/stzanos/.bash_profile: Permission denied
-bash-4.2$This is pretty weird. I am able to login from my CentOS VirtualBox with $ssh -Y <other pc> after entering username and password but when I'm trying to login from the Windows 10 with PuTTy I cannot. Is this an XMing issue? Is there something I'm missing? Could the other PC be blocking my user entering specifically from windows? I'm pretty confused
Thanks in advance for any help or comment
1 Answer
There is an issue on the machine you are trying to connect to. The file .bash_profile doesn't have the right permissions on it. This file is executed whenever you try to open a login shell.
You can either delete the file (because its not explicitly needed), or you can fix the permissions.
To delete the file, I would just rename it because maybe you might need it later.
mv ~/.bash_profile ~/old_bash_profile
The permissions should probably be read and execute by all, write by user. That would be 755 permissions code.
chmod 755 ~/.bash_profile
