Xauthority files on Redhat AS

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:08:10AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:51:05AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> > I have several Redhat AS3 servers.  When I log in via ssh -Y, some
> > systems create a .Xauthorty file while other don't.  All systems have
> > the XFree86-xauth rpm installed.  What triggers the creation of the
> > .Xauthority file?
> 
> Did you mean ssh -X?  I have never used -Y, although it appears similar.
> 
> I believe it requires that 'xauth' be available in the path on the
> remote system or it won't setup any of the X stuff.
> 
> For example on debian you need xbase-clients installed to have
> /usr/bin/xauth, which ssh requires to setup X forwarding on the remote
> end.

Oh and of course the ssh server has to be configured to allow X
forwarding in the first place.

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