Auth failed error when opening files using XRootD in pyROOT

[eballabe]

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PyROOT cannot open file: "Error in <TNetXNGFile::Open>: [FATAL] Auth failed"

on macOS, in a ROOT session, I can open this file just fine: $ root ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Welcome to ROOT 6.11/03 http://root.cern.ch | | (c) 1995-2017, The ROOT Team | | Built for macosx64 | | From heads/master@v6-11-02-3-g9bb8349ee6, Oct 10 2017, 13:40:35 | | Try '.help', '.demo', '.license', '.credits', '.quit'/'.q' | --------…