On Friday, October 28, 2011 04:10:05 AM Steve Brooks wrote:

> I have a few "sl6.1" worstations that do not have "xorg-x11-xauth" 
> installed and it does *not* seem to appear in the repos. Yet 
> X11-Forwarding works fine.

That's mighty strange, as a basically scratch SL6.1 install here shows:
[root@pe1600sc-2 ~]# repoquery --qf "%-20{repoid} %{name}" xorg-x11-xauth
sl                   xorg-x11-xauth
[root@pe1600sc-2 ~]# cat /etc/issue
Scientific Linux release 6.1 (Carbon)
Kernel \r on an \m

[root@pe1600sc-2 ~]#

On a CentOS 6.0+CR VM here:

[root@z1-c6 ~]# repoquery --qf "%-20{repoid} %{name}" xorg-x11-xauth
base                 xorg-x11-xauth
[root@z1-c6 ~]# cat /etc/issue
CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

[root@z1-c6 ~]#

I did absolutely nothing special to either of these two boxes (just a basic 
installation that included GNOME and other server things (these boxes get used 
as remote desktop servers in addition to other duties, so GUI is required), and 
X forwarding works fine.  I typically use X forwarding to run a few GUI 
programs that are mighty handy, such as palimpsest (GNOME Disk Utility) which 
puts all in one place lots and lots of useful information about your disk 
devices that would otherwise require many command line invocations to grab.

Both boxes have xorg-x11-xauth installed.
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