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AI-generatedPuTTY and X11 Server: Xauth Cookie Handling Across Concurrent Sessions
PuTTY implements X11 forwarding by tunneling graphical data between a local X server and a remote X client via the SSH-2 protocol. This process requires the remote server's sshd to allocate a pseudo-terminal and set the DISPLAY environment variable based on the client's request during session negotiation. When managing multiple concurrent SSH sessions to the