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Re: Warning: No xauth data
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:56:04 -0600
- Subject: Re: Warning: No xauth data
- References: <gfk1rd$edd$1@ger.gmane.org> <491DE8D4.9000105@dronecode.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Hmmm.... it seems that ssh needs to run xauth to do connection forwarding, but
> is still trying to use /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth, rather than /usr/bin/xauth (and
> prints a slightly misleading message in this case)
>
> In which case, until that is corrected somehow, you might add the following
> line to your ~/.ssh/config and see if that improves matters
>
> XAuthLocation=/usr/bin/Xauth
That should be /usr/bin/xauth with a small x. Only the servers start
with a capital X.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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