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Evince fails to start because it cannot read .Xauthority

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m logged in remotely over SSH with X forwarding to a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). Most X11 applications (e.g. xterm, gnome-terminal) work fine. But Evince does not start. It seems unable to read ~/.Xauthority, even though the file exists, and is evidently readable (it has the right permissions and other applications read it just fine).

How to prevent a process from writing files

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I want to run a command on Linux in a way that it cannot create or open any files to write. It should still be able to read files as normal (so an empty chroot is not an option), and still be able to write to files already open (especially stdout).