[PLUG] Xauth data?

[Elliott Mitchell]

> From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
>   When I ssh into my office network I see the line that "no xauth data
> available, using made up one for X11 forwarding". What xauth data am I
> supposed to have and in what file should it live?

Would be created during X-server startup, either `xinit` or `xdm`. The
message means no access cookie was ever created. This in turns means
connections to your X-server are controlled on a per-host basis, rather
than the prefered method of being able to access the cookie. For a
singleuser system this isn't a problem, but for multiuser systems this is
a severe problem.

What is happening is SSH is creating a fake cookie for connections to the
remote end, while at the local end host-based access is being used. This
is bad, but too likely to cause problems for you.


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