Dave Close wrote: > The error shown with "ssh -Xvvv" in all failure cases is, > debug3: send packet: type 91 > debug2: X11 auth data does not match fake data. > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > debug2: X11 rejected 1 i0/o0 I don't know but I do have questions. So maybe... What is the output of these commands? type xauth xauth info xauth list ls -ld ~/.Xauthority And if that file is zero sized then does this help? xauth generate $DISPLAY Bob P.S. Examples showing possible output such as from here. rwp@torpid:~$ type xauth xauth is hashed (/usr/bin/xauth) rwp@torpid:~$ xauth list torpor/unix:11 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 7407600ff3ffb98ca1a7993b4ff46f2a torpid/unix:10 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 f3e9640e114f1b2704b7b06751f96c06 torpid/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 feb389d5487ba1d2e0109b28217a628b rwp@torpid:~$ xauth info Authority file: /home/rwp/.Xauthority File new: no File locked: no Number of entries: 3 Changes honored: yes Changes made: no Current input: (argv):1 rwp@torpid:~$ ls -ld ~/.Xauthority -rw------- 1 rwp rwp 155 Sep 4 06:34 /home/rwp/.Xauthority _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev