Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
- Subject: Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
- From: Merton Campbell Crockett <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:57:50 -0800
On 11 Nov 2007, at 17:28:59, Ben Byer wrote:
On Nov 11, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
While I could establish a connection with the error being reported,
I could not run an xterm or any application on the remote system
that would open an X window. I had to restore the "export DISPLAY=:
0.0" to ~/.bash_profile.
Don't do that, you'll be sorry...
Actually, it was necessary until I downloaded and installed the new
version of XQuartz. After that was accomplished, I could get rid of
the above statement.
Okay, try these SSH troubleshooting steps. This list shows the
expected behavior of the system.
local $ refers to commands run on my local Mac running Leopard
remote $ refers to commands run on a remote Unix machine, of any type
[1] local $ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-Bh0fLm/:0
[2] local $ grep DISPLAY ~/.*rc ~/.login ~/.*profile ~/.MacOSX/
environment.plist 2>/dev/null
[3] local $ grep -r DISPLAY /opt/local/etc /sw/etc /etc 2>/dev/null
[4] local $ ssh -Y remote
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding.
[5] remote $ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
[6]remote $ grep X11 /etc/ssh/sshd_config ~/.ssh/*
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
spielzeit:~ mcc$ cat typescript
Script started on Sun Nov 11 18:20:32 2007
bash-3.2$ echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-yAZMCs/:0
bash-3.2$ grep DISPLAY ~/.*rc ~/.login ~/.*profile ~/.MacOSX/
environment.plist 2>/dev/null
/Users/mcc/.bash_profile:#export DISPLAY=:0.0
bash-3.2$ grep -r DISPLAY /opt/local/etc /sw/etc /etc 2>/dev/null
bash-3.2$ ssh -Y raid.my.domain.com
email@hidden's password:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding.
raid.my.domain.com.1-> echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0
raid.my.domain.com.7-> grep X11 /etc/sshd_config ~/.ssh/*
/etc/sshd_config:X11Forwarding yes
/etc/sshd_config:X11DisplayOffset 10
raid.my.domain.com.8-> exit
logout
Connection to raid.my.domain.com closed.
bash-3.2$ exit
exit
Script done on Sun Nov 11 18:26:10 2007
spielzeit:~ mcc$
I believe the above is consistent with your output.
Merton Campbell Crockett
email@hidden
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