openssh bugs - Feb 2005 - [Bug 733] ssh doing xauth stuff even when it can't access local .Xauthority file

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733


dtucker at zip.com.au changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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------- Additional Comments From dtucker at zip.com.au  2005-02-09 21:13 -------
Took another look: it's just a warning (and thus will be suppressed with
"ssh
-q" or "LogLevel QUIET" in a config file).  From the code in
question (ssh.c):

/*
 * If we didn't get authentication data, just make up some
 * data.  The forwarding code will check the validity of the
 * response anyway, and substitute this data.  The X11
 * server, however, will ignore this fake data and use
 * whatever authentication mechanisms it was using otherwise
 * for the local connection.
 */

So, yes, it's probably due to your .Xauthority not being readable but
it's not
anything to worry about (and there's nothing much that ssh could do about it
anyway...)



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