dhk writes:
> On 11/10/2010 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:20 -0500, dhk wrote:
> >> Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only
> >> happens when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86
> >> box. I use ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in.
> >
> > Have you tried using -Y instead of -X?
>
> I haven't tried -Y, but I'll give it a shot when I get to the office.
> However, shouldn't -X work? It's been working all along.
-Y enables trusted forwarding. I'm no expert here, but I think that this
could enable enable remote applications to read your screen or capture
keystrokes. On the other hand, several applications do not work in
untrusted mode (-X) and need the -Y option. But in these cases you get
messages like these:
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
Resource id in failed request: 0x600001
Serial number of failed request: 17
Current serial number in output stream: 18
Your problem seems to be another one. Trying -Y will do no harm, but I
don't think it will help here.
Wonko
