From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij6IW-0003m5-7u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:50:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9K4d35r010371; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:39:03 GMT Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9K4XTL0001914 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:33:29 GMT Received: from xdsl-195-14-204-219.netcologne.de ([195.14.204.219] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij61g-000741-N1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:29 +0200 Received: from weird.wonkology.org (weird.wonkology.org [::ffff:192.168.1.4]) by zone.wonkology.org with esmtp; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:24 +0200 id 000304E6.47198514.0000074C From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:33:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200709272013.34289.wonko@wonkology.org> <200710141725.44763.wonko@wonkology.org> <200710142245.51681.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200710142245.51681.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710200633.23489.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 80b83d32-a2ea-4253-af96-df73ef946748 X-Archives-Hash: 7fb4b00d53c161f879afe905d81261ea Mick writes: > 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. Well, my setup looks pretty vanilla to me, I did not talk about more sophisticated tunneling stuff. I just have a server and a client, and need to put the XAuthLocation line into the client's config when I want X forwarding. I know found out what happened. The old boxes with working forwarding have a /usr/openwin symlink pointing to /usr/X11R6. This makes xauth being found. It belongs to x11-libs/xview, but the last xview update removed the symlink, now X forwarding fails. Still no idea why you all do NOT have the problem. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list