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: Anton Rang <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:48:02 -0600
On Nov 12, 2007, at 10:25 AM, M. Stanley Bubien wrote:
Unless your X connection is not working, I believe you can safely
ignore that error message.
Well, more to the point for me... why does this happen? It certainly
shouldn't, and I've done everything I can to eliminate the message.
You can't eliminate it, I suspect.
ssh is running the command
xauth list $DISPLAY (e.g. xauth list /tmp/launch-blah/:0)
and xauth is generating the output
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "/tmp/launch-blah/:0" in "list"
command
I'm not quite sure what the "fix" here is, since the Xauth data probably
isn't generated until the X server starts, which won't happen until sshd
requests that the forwarding happen -- and I think that may be after the
authentication data is transmitted to sshd.
Perhaps best would be to simply disable the warning in sshd for
Darwin....
Anton
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