I was having a problem using Xfree and ssh under cygwin. I want to be able to run a xterm session on a remote cygwin machine on the X server running on my local cygwin machine.
I can ssh into the remote machine with no problem, and I get an .Xauthority file, the problem is that the entry has the machine name in CAPITALS, which causes problems for the X apps. The following ~/.ssh/rc script fixes the problem, with thanks to Olivier Baudron: PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin;export PATH if read proto cookie; then m=`echo $COMPUTERNAME|tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"` x=`echo -n $DISPLAY | sed -e s/:/\\\\/unix:/|sed -e s/localhost/$m/` xauth -q add $x $proto $cookie xauth list fi What is strange, is that if you just do a xauth -q $DISPLAY $proto $cookie then you get an entry that has the machine name in lowercase but without the /unix. BTW, I am still having trouble getting this to work on a SCO unix base, xauth list looks correct, but I always get: debug1: confirm x11 debug1: X11 connection uses different authentication protocol. X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. debug1: X11 rejected 1 i0/o0 Very annoying. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
