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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:45:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710142245.51681.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710141725.44763.wonko@wonkology.org>

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On Sunday 14 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:

> Then I looked at the configs again, and in the man page for ssh_config I
> finally found this:
>      XAuthLocation
>              Specifies the full pathname of the xauth(1) program.  The
>              default is /usr/openwin/bin/xauth.
>
> /usr/openwin? I added "XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth" to the
> client's /etc/ssh/ssh_config, and now all was fine. Even without the X use
> flag.
>
> Looking at a gentoo box I did not update for a while, I see the man page
> there tells the default location is /usr/bin/xauth. Okay, now I know this
> change is responsible. But why aren't forum and this list flooded with
> people experiencing the same problem as me?

Perhaps because most use vanilla ssh to manage servers?  I have every now and 
then used an ssh tunnel to forward VNC connections, but that is exceptional 
as far as my usage of ssh goes.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-14 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-27 18:13 [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer Alex Schuster
2007-09-28  3:59 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-09-28  7:30   ` Alex Schuster
2007-10-14 15:25     ` Alex Schuster
2007-10-14 21:45       ` Mick [this message]
2007-10-20  4:33         ` Alex Schuster

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