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.Xauthority magic cookie

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Posted by Eric Lubow

To find out the .Xauthority magic cookie looks like and to send it (authorization information) to the remote host, use the following command:

xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh storm xauth merge -

Now the user who ran this command on the original host can now run xcilents on storm. xauth needs to be present on both hosts.

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