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...Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: sshd AssignedTo: openssh-bugs at mindrot.org ReportedBy: Mario.Nigrovic at Motorola.com Sometimes ~/.Xauthority is not writable, so to tunnel X, another location must be supplied. I propose ssh_config variable OverrideXAUTHORITY. If set, sshd could place XAUTHORITY in the environment, pointing either to this file, or, if it's a directory, to some generated unique filename in that directory. It would then propagate XAUTHORITY to the user's environment also. Because, when this option is present, sshd would _always...