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Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for x11forwarding
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, Jim Drash <jim dot drash at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:01:32 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for x11forwarding
- References: <200410261836.i9QIaaw05668@panix3.panix.com><61f6f43904102611395794cf35@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Jim Drash wrote:
> use "ssh -X" instead
NO!
ssh -X uses an ____UNTRUSTED____ X11 connection while ssh -Y uses a trusted connection.
If you're not sure about what you say then don't mess with the users. This was one of
most frequently asked questions a few months ago and I don't want to start answering
the same question every day.
ssh -Y is fine for all daily usage. If you know what you're dooing then use -X. But don't
bother the mailinglist with strange errors which did not occur before.
> > When I connect from cygwin to a remote host using 'ssh -Y', I get the
> > warning:
> >
> > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for x11 forwarding
> >
> > How can I fix this?
Live with it. It's just a warning.
If it really bothers you then setup xauth.
man Xsecurity will give you a quite detailed introduction to the whole X11 authentication
schemes. But this is a quite complex task. There have been some threads on the mailing list
about this topic (search for md5sum and xauth).
bye
ago
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