Re: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. (solved)

2008-10-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
and issues the warning: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Not sure whether this will help, but it's worth a try: Find out the hard coded path of the xauth binary in the sshd executable. strings `which sshd` | grep xauth the above command should show

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

2008-10-15 Thread Jerry Feldman
I am using Fedora 9 on an IA64 workstation. When I ssh -X to another host, the ssh authentication succeeds in under a second, but the X11 authentication takes about 20 seconds and issues the warning: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. My home directory

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

2008-10-15 Thread Aldo Foot
; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Not sure whether this will help, but it's worth a try: Find out the hard coded path of the xauth binary in the sshd executable. strings `which sshd` | grep xauth the above command should show a line like /usr/bin/xauth, take note of whatever