Re: ssh: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:38:11PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> About an hour ago, all my X windows over SSH locked up for no reason.
> Then, logging out and back in using SSH, I get this error during login:
>
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
>
> And no X programs are able to run, locking up the SSH session. I
> tried googling for the error but didn't find anything useful. Has
> anybody else ever run into this problem?
That implies that xauth isn't on the remote machine, or that 'xauth
list' somehow failed. Try with -vvv?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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