Re: vnc x-windows server looking for "xauth"

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

David Karlin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up
> vncserver,
> it says:
> 
>   vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
> 
> First I checked my hard-drive for "xauth" (find / -name "xauth"); the file
> does not exist on my drive.  Then I checked in packages.gz (from hamm),
> and couldn't find it there either.
> 
> >From what I've gathered, it's a file which controls who has access to the
> vncserver, but that's about all I know.
> 
> Can anyone help figure out how to set this up?

Do you have X11 installed?

ascus:~ $ dpkg -S xauth
xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x.gz

Noel