[H-GEN] What's this xauth list output mean?

[andrew laidlaw]

Hi,

When I open a shell as root and type:

xauth list

I get a one line output related to display 0, and the process finishes.  All seems well there.


When I do the same thing as user, I get something a bit like this:

linux-xxxx/name:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  randomstring1
llinux-xxxx/name:1  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  random string2
 123.156.78.101:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  randomstring3

Where I've edited the text a bit for clarity.  Then the process hangs around a while, there's a few internet packages and the next line gets printed:

<Another unknown IP>:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  randomstring4

and so on.  The process doesn't finish by itself.  Only the first two lines seem like what I was expecting.

xauth info tells me there are some 7 entries in the Xauthorities file.

I have never used ssh, and my firewall has never been changed from default settings.

I wonder what that output means?  There is nothing seemingly related in the xauth manpage.

Thanks in advance.


regards..... andrew.
 

       
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