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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: marshallst@appstate.edu
Subject: Re: No xauth program
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7FBEAD.3020208@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7EA987.9090006@appstate.edu>
On 01/09/2010 20:29, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
> when I connect using
>
> ssh -Yv localhost
>
> the last few lines of output are:
>
> debug1: Entering interactive session.
> debug1: No xauth program.
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
> debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
> Last login: Wed Sep 1 15:03:40 2010 from ::1
>
> I don't understand the No xauth program part. I have xauth in /bin
> which xauth
> returns
> /usr/bin/xauth
> and when I check the permissions on xauth, I see that they are 755 and I am
> the owner.
You might like to try if xauth can actually run successfully?
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Jon TURNEY
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-02 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 19:33 Scott T. Marshall
2010-09-02 15:11 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2010-09-02 18:06 ` Scott T. Marshall
2010-09-02 22:48 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-09-03 16:50 ` Scott T. Marshall
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