On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, John R Pierce wrote: > well, there's the subtle clue that the first time you log onto a > particular account with X forwarding, xauth prints a message about > saving the .Xauth file.... Sure, but that means you're looking for absence of an info message (that you typically don't care all that much about) to let you know something's wrong. That's very easy to miss. jh