Currently, xm & xend allow an XAUTHORITY to be specified in the config

file.  If that is not specified, then xm will pass the XAUTHORITY
environment variable back to xend instead.  This is not sufficient,
since it is possible that XAUTHORITY is not set at all.  This doesn't
cause a problem for most X apps, because xlib will use the fall-back of
$HOME/.Xauthority.  But the viewer is started from xend, which almost
certainly doesn't have a reasonable HOME variable.

We fix this by always passing some value for
XAUTHORITY.  In order of preference, that value is:
1.  Use the value from the config file, if specified.
2.  Use the value from the XAUTHORITY env variable, if set.
3.  Use $HOME/.Xauthority, if HOME is set.
4.  Look up the user's home directory via getpwuid, and append
"/.Xauthority"

Signed-off-by: Charles Coffing <ccoffing@novell.com>

tools/python/xen/xm/create.py

@@ -864,7 +864,14 @@ def parseCommandLine(argv):
         gopts.vals.display = os.getenv("DISPLAY")
 
     if not gopts.vals.xauthority:
-        gopts.vals.xauthority = os.getenv("XAUTHORITY")
+        xauth = os.getenv("XAUTHORITY")
+        if not xauth:
+            home = os.getenv("HOME")
+            if not home:
+                import posix, pwd
+                home = pwd.getpwuid(posix.getuid())[5]
+            xauth = home + "/.Xauthority"
+        gopts.vals.xauthority = xauth
 
     # Process remaining args as config variables.
     for arg in args: