On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Saturday, October 29, 2011 07:26:04 PM John Hodrien wrote: >> ssh tells you when it creates a .Xauthority file for the first time. Why does >> it do that? > > Being totally pedantic here, but isn't it /usr/bin/xauth that issues the message telling that the .Xauthority file has been created? I think so, but ssh knows enough about what it tried to do and how it failed to report it when you use "-v". -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com