Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Oct 16 19:07:01 UTC 2008


On 10/16/2008 11:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Dumb question - does ssh -Y work any faster?
>   
A quick answer is no.
As in my previous reply, the problem was specifically the permissions of 
/var/run/gdm.  This cause xauth to fail to acquire a lock.  Both the -X 
and -Y options of ssh invoke xauth, and thus run into the same problem, 
which is unrelated to ssh.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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