From: Ken Jackson <cygwin@jackson.io>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: how can I disable the warning about X11 forwarding
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 07:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5618BAC7.4030505@jackson.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56169E05.7040703@freenet.de>
On 10/08/2015 12:47 PM, Peter wrote:
> I want to allow some users to run an interactive program on my w2012
> server via ssh.
> The program is a console app so I do not need X forwarding.
> Users are connecting via putty without an X server.
> Alas they always get nagged with the
> "WARNING: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
> forwarding."
> Is there a way to get rid of this message?
I have this in my ~/.bashrc file to add xauth data:
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" -a -z "$(xauth list ":${DISPLAY#*:}" 2>/dev/null)" ]
then
xauth add "$DISPLAY" . "$(date | md5sum | cut -b1-32)"
fi
Alternately, try putting this in /etc/ssh_config:
ForwardX11 no
-Ken
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2015-10-08 16:50 ` Peter
2015-10-08 19:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-08 20:18 ` Peter
2015-10-10 7:14 ` Ken Jackson [this message]
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