how can I disable the warning about X11 forwarding

Peter fomember@freenet.de
Thu Oct 8 20:18:00 GMT 2015


On 08.10.2015 20:56, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Peter!
>
>> I want to allow some users to run an interactive program on my w2012
>> server via ssh.
>> The program is a console app so I do not need X forwarding.
>> Users are connecting via putty without an X server.
>> Alas they always get nagged with the
>> "WARNING: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding."
>> Is there a way to get rid of this message?
> Tell them to not request X11 forwarding, and they won't be nagged by it.
>
>
I don't understand this answer.
The command is just    ssh  user@host    when I get the warning.
If the command was  ssh -X user@host  or ssh -Y user@host  it would be 
clear to me.
So maybe there is some default in sshd_config that should be changed?


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