How to prevent warnings like No xauth data when doing ssh from OS X to other machines?
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I get
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
when I do ssh to other machines from my OS X machine which has X-server installed.
echo $DISPLAY
returns something like /tmp/launch-4eEyr6/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
Inside ~/.ssh/config
I specified XAuthLocation xauth
but I still get the errors.
If I replace the line with full path to xauth (/opt/X11/bin/xauth
), I stop getting the errors but the problem is that I do share the ssh config file between several machines, so I cannot put a path that is specific to Mac on it.
I would prefer a solution that would not require me to create a symlink on Mac from /opt/X11/bin/xauth
to /usr/bin/xauth
.
Asked by sorin
(31160 rep)
Apr 13, 2012, 01:47 PM
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