Re: [Sheflug] ssh X11 forwarding

[Andrew Basterfield <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04 Mar 2002 23:25:08 +0000
Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> wrote:

> Oh god, you're using ssh rather than OpenSSH :( I don't do proprietary
> software I'm afraid, but maybe that's a source of the trouble.

I'm _doing the right thing_ and swapping the linux boxes from SSH to
OpenSSH (urg, via telnet on my headless boxes)

It was installed a few years back, when I knew I wanted ssh and it was the
first package I came across. Since then it has just worked & I haven't
messed with it.

I'm building OpenSSL & OpenSSH now, hopefully it will work.

> The other thing to check is your distro - what are you using? It could
> be that $XAUTHORITY isn't set correctly (vis. Mandrake)

One of the machines has something very loosely resembling Slackware 7 and
the other is built from sources. Neither mess with $XAUTHORITY. The third
is NetBSD/sparc.

thanks for the pointers anyhow. Hopefully OpenSSH will work better.

--Andrew

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