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Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data, for X11 forwarding
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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: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:14:13 -0800

On Nov 13, 2007 2:13 AM, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Perhaps best would be to simply disable the warning in sshd for Darwin....
>
> ... or teach xauth about the weird new display names.
>
> Here is a little patch against xauth-X11R7.2-1.0.2 from X11apps-13 that
> does this. As before, the warning will only disappear if there is an
> existing ~/.Xauthority file.

> +    if (strncmp (displayname, "/tmp/launch", 11) == 0)
> +       displayname = strrchr(displayname, '/') + 1;
> +

For these kinds of checks instead of hardwiring the "/tmp/launch"
prefix, wouldn't it make sense to just say that if the display name
starts with '/' it must be a path to a local socket?  I'm just
anticipating the day Apple decides to re-brand launchd as corelaunchd.

Cheers,
-n8

--
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->
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 >Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data, for X11 forwarding (From: "M. Stanley Bubien" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data, for X11 forwarding (From: Anton Rang <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data, for X11 forwarding (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)

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