Re: SSH & XFree86

[Raymond Kwong <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>]

I have several setups of cygwin and XFree86. With the latest Cygwin 1.3.16-1,
ssh 3.5p1-2 (or ssh 3.5p1-1), and XWin 4.2.0-16 (or 4.2.0-15), I am getting
the same warning message as John:

Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.

However, my X clients do work fine, and I haven't found any other problem.
With Cygwin 1.3.15-2, ssh 3.5p1-1, and XWin 4.2.0-16, however, there is no
such warning message. This seems to suggest there is some problem involving
something other than just ssh and XFree86 which generates the warning message.
When I ran ssh -v, I get with Cygwin 1.3.15-2, ssh 3.5p1-1, XWin 4.2.0-16,
the following as part of the startup message
 
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: ssh_session2_setup: id 0
debug1: channel request 0: pty-req
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
debug1: channel request 0: x11-req
debug1: channel request 0: shell
debug1: fd 4 setting TCP_NODELAY

With Cygwin 1.3.16-1, ssh 3.5p1-2, XWin 4.2.0-16, the additional warning
message appears just before the
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing
message.

I hope this may help in identifying the source of the warning message.

Raymond Kwong