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Subject: Re: X11 forwarding problems in FreeBSD 6.2 - no xauth data?
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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