> Learn to use xauth(1) properly, or cheat and do: It's not that easy, and a pain in any case. There's also no need to use xauth, because for remote machines ssh will do it for you (unless someone turned it off in the sshd config), and locally sux will do it for you. Much easier.
> ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] [optional program to execute] Pardon me, but ssh to localhost does seem a little daft, the encryption overhead isn't actually that small. Yeah it'll work, but. Nick there are probably multiple versions on sux, the SuSE one is (C) Werner Fink 2000-2004. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
