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Re: svn with linux: warning: no xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:23:07 -0400

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer_at_bfk.de> wrote:
>> * Leo Simon:
>>
>>>
>>> There's stuff on the web about this warning but it's all related to ssh.
>>> Obviously I'm connecting with ssh_svn but the web suggestions don't
>>> seem to apply to my case.
>>
>> If you don't want to fix your SSH problem, you configure the client or
>> the server not to attempt X11 forwarding.  You should probably do that
>> in any case (and it should be the default in more recent Solaris
>> releases).
>
> That's "ssh+svn". The SSH connection is opened to talk to the server
> and run a local 'svnserver' port, which is tunneled back to your local
> host, so yes, it lives on top of ssh. The normal option for ssh to
> prevent this would involve using 'ssh +x', and being sure to unset
> your "DISPLAY" environment variable.
>
> I'm assuming that your SSH environment is inside of an X terminal?
> What happens if you unset your "DISPLAY" environment setting inside
> your script?
>

A fast check in '$HOME/.subversion/config" reveals that the "ssh"
optionc can be set to be "/usr/bin/ssh -x", to prevent the use of X
forwarding.
Received on 2010-09-15 11:24:00 CEST

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