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


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)

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Jon TURNEY
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