[Xquartz-dev] OSX 10.6.2 breaks X11 auth forwarding?

Chris Linstid clinstid at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 07:25:21 PST 2009


After some more investigation, it turned out that it was merely an sshd
configuration mixup.  Sorry for the noise.

    - Chris


On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Chris Linstid <clinstid at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am also seeing this problem.  With "ssh -vvv" on SL with the stock X11 I
> get the following:
>
> debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth  list /tmp/launch-fliXNa/:0
> 2>/dev/null
>
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
> debug2: channel 0: request x11-req confirm 0
>
> I tried running the xauth command without redirection and did not get any
> output.
>
>     - Chris
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Aldo Dall'Aglio <adaglio at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Jamie Kennea wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Since updating to 10.6.2 last night, I notice that every single outbound
>>>> ssh -Y connection reports
>>>>
>>>> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
>>>> forwarding.
>>>>
>>>> This happens with both 2.4.1_beta1 and the stock Snow Leopard X11.
>>>> I've seen this message before but only occasionally; now it seems
>>>> 100% reproducible.  Anyone else see it?  Any suggestions about
>>>> investigating the cause?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I see it going from a 10.6.2 machine running 2.4.1_beta1, but not on my
>>> other machine which has 10.6.2 with the vanilla SL X11.
>>>
>>> Jamie
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>> I do not have this problem. I am running 10.6.2 with the default X11 on
>> SL.
>> Aldo
>>
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