Re: wrong authentication protocol attempted

From: Simon Tatham (anakin_at_pobox.com)
Date: 10/27/05 

Date: 27 Oct 2005 08:39:43 +0100 (BST)

Jack Patteeuw <jjpatteeuw@nospam.net> wrote:
> PuTTY 0.56

0.56 is a security risk. You should upgrade to 0.58.

> What is really odd is this DOES work correctly on a diferent host which
> (in theory) has been set up the same !!????

Have you checked to see whether root's X authority file might also
contain an XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 cookie for the same display number?
If there were one lying around from a previous session, it would
override the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 one you just put in. 

-- 
Simon Tatham         "What a caterpillar calls the end of the
<anakin@pobox.com>    world, a human calls a butterfly."