November 2015

Netflix Broken on Chrome

In the past, Netflix would not work in Linux without jumping through hoops. About a year ago or so, Netflix added support for Chrome under Linux. This worked fine with no extra steps required.

Today, however, I loaded up Netflix for the first time in a while and the web page was broken. Missing links, text that should have been links, missing graphics–totally unusable. A little Googling turned up that some extensions can break Netflix. AdBlock is one of them. The solution is to whitelist netflix.com in the extension. Unfortunately, I had already done that. The next step is to disable extensions one at a time to find the guilty party. This time it was Privacy Badger. Luckily, it has a domain whitelist setting also. Adding www.netflix.com fixed the problem.

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SSH X Forwarding when using Sudo

When you ssh -X to a host, SSH handles X forwarding for you. However, if you run a sudo command in that session, the process breaks down. Here’s how you can make it work:

you@local$ ssh -XC server
you@server$ xauth list
 [output]
you@server$ sudo su - otheruser
otheruser@server$ xauth add [paste output from "xauth list"]
otheruser@server$ xterm (or other X application)

Source: http://backdrift.org/x-forwarding-sudo-ssh-session

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