Wishlist: addition to FAQ 2.7

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Wed Apr 19 00:02:02 EST 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:22:23AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On April 18, dtucker at zip.com.au said:
> 
>  > "X11 forwarding requires a working xauth(1) binary. [...]
> 
> Not to pick nits, but you may want to say "on the server" here.

No, xauth gets used on both client and server.  Try "ssh -vvv -X somehost"
and you will see the client running xauth.

> Thanks for updating the FAQ.  It's one of the more useful ones out
> there.

You're welcome.

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