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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:33:01 +0200
From:      Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
Subject:   Re: X11 forwarding problems in FreeBSD 6.2 - no xauth data?
Message-ID:  <200707110133.02184.pieter@degoeje.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200707101525.49966.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
References:  <200707090103.49950.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200707101441.01594.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <200707101525.49966.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>

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On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Pollywog wrote:
> I found out that "mcookie" generates magic cookies for xauth, but I do not
> have the mcookie command in FreeBSD, though it exists on my Debian Etch
> system and is part of the util-linux package.
I think you need to generate a new cookie with
$ xauth generate :0 . trusted
See xauth(1) for more info.

HTH,
Pieter de Goeje



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