xauth issue (remote X w/putty via Cygwin/XWin)

[Jon TURNEY]

On 15/09/2015 16:56, Chris Louden wrote:
> Following up on this post:
>
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2015-02/msg00075.html
>
> Is there any news regarding the getting "listen tcp" issue with xauth
> resolved. The workaround mentioned works but isn't ideal in the
> environment I have.

No progress, but a couple more suggestions:

cygwin now has an X11 PuTTY client package.  I haven't tested that, but 
I guess that should be able to find the X display and authority file 
without any special configuration.

Alternatively, you could patch xinit to use a deterministic name for the 
authority file e.g. ~/.serverauth.hostname.display rather than 
~/.serverauth.pid.

(If you write such a patch, please submit it, as that would probably be 
acceptable in our package and maybe upstream.  Using just the pid seems 
wrong, as there potentially could be collisions in a shared home directory)

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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