--- In [email protected], "Saifi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > I am trying to do the following experiment with SSH. > > There are two machines mc1 and mc2 running identical version of the Suse Linux distro > and have X11 forwarding setup in /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. > > 1. I login in machine mc1 > 2. xhost + > 3. ssh -l saifi mc2 > > Now, I am on machine m2. > 4. ssh -l saifi mc1 > > Basically, I am trying to login back from the machine mc2. > > While the system lets me login back, the following warning response is shown as well - > > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > Last login: Sun Dec 31 14:33:29 2006 from 192.168.1.3 > > My query is - what does the line 'using fake authentication data ...' mean ? > > Can somebody throw light on this ? > > Thanks in advance. > > thanks > Saifi. >
Hi Saifi, It seems SSH throws up this warning when it cannot find Xauthority information for the display. See this for more: http://rocketcalc.com/bread.php?key=22 -- Satish Vellanki http://cs.ttu.edu/~savellan
