[Wylug-help] Odd X and SSH behaviour

[Dave Whiteley]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:05:21PM +0100, Jason Lander wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> > If I try to run Xemacs before the second ssh, I get an error message
> > which starts with
> >    X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>
> SSH fiddles the X authority settings in ~/.Xauthority using xauth when it
> builds an X connection to provide something better than host based
> authentication.
>
> If the .Xauthority file has a duff entry for a particular forwarded X
> stream you may see this behaviour.
>
> - Jason
>
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> Jason Lander                       jason at env.leeds.ac.uk
>
>
Thanks Jason,

Looks Good.  I have deleted the .Xauthority, and reconnected.  It has
reported creating a new file, and XEmacs started straight away.

Yippee.  This one has been an annoying niggle for ages.

Dave




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