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(a)nowhere.ws&gt; --- 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)