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Mick writes: |
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> On Sunday 14 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Then I looked at the configs again, and in the man page for ssh_config |
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> > I finally found this: |
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> > XAuthLocation |
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> > Specifies the full pathname of the xauth(1) program. The |
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> > default is /usr/openwin/bin/xauth. |
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> > |
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> > /usr/openwin? I added "XAuthLocation /usr/bin/xauth" to the |
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> > client's /etc/ssh/ssh_config, and now all was fine. Even without the X |
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> > use flag. |
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> > |
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> > Looking at a gentoo box I did not update for a while, I see the man |
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> > page there tells the default location is /usr/bin/xauth. Okay, now I |
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> > know this change is responsible. But why aren't forum and this list |
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> > flooded with people experiencing the same problem as me? |
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> Perhaps because most use vanilla ssh to manage servers? I have every now |
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> and then used an ssh tunnel to forward VNC connections, but that is |
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> exceptional as far as my usage of ssh goes. |
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Well, my setup looks pretty vanilla to me, I did not talk about more |
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sophisticated tunneling stuff. I just have a server and a client, and need |
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to put the XAuthLocation line into the client's config when I want X |
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forwarding. |
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I know found out what happened. The old boxes with working forwarding have |
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a /usr/openwin symlink pointing to /usr/X11R6. This makes xauth being |
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found. It belongs to x11-libs/xview, but the last xview update removed the |
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symlink, now X forwarding fails. |
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Still no idea why you all do NOT have the problem. |
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Alex |
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