Re: No xauth data; using fake authentication data
Re: No xauth data; using fake authentication data
- Subject: Re: No xauth data; using fake authentication data
- From: dp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:20:21 -0700
On 3/22/10 8:16 PM, dp wrote:
On 3/22/10 3:40 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding.
I've Googled this and there are lots of hints, but none of them seem
to correct the problem.
Any ideas?
Pure guess: ssh has the path /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth built in.
The new X runs out of /opt (yes?). Is there some interaction
between the xauth in /usr/X11R6/bin and the new version of X?
Try this to find out:
ssh -X -o XAuthLocation /path/to/new/xauth hostfilename
and see if the error goes away.
The same warning occurs when using the OS X terminal tool so it's an X11
or ssh problem but not an xterm problem.
dp
Setting XAuthLocation in the ssh_config doesn't help but should. Indeed the path
to xauth is hard coded:
bash-3.2$ strings /usr/bin/ssh |grep xauth
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
xauthlocation
No xauth program.
%s/xauthfile
Setting it on the command line doesn't work, either.
dp
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