Re: [PLUG] [OT] X forwarding broken under solaris

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

Well that's a problem as it needs to be set by ssh itself, that is the
PATH is not set, IMHO, yet as the login is not completed.

Is there a way to fix this?

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Gran wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger said:
> > This was something I wanted to ask at the meeting last night, but I was
> > unable to articulate it properly as I didn't have the error message in
> > front of me.
> >
> > I compiled my own version of ssh under solaris.
> >
> > However, X forwarding seems to be broken. Here's what I get when I do
> >
> > ssh -vvv -X solaris_remote_host
> >
> > [snip]
> > debug2: x11_get_proto /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth list :0.0 2>/dev/null
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
> > debug1: channel request 0: x11-req
> > debug1: channel request 0: shell
> > debug1: fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY
> > debug2: callback done
> > debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
> > debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
> > debug2: channel 0: rcvd adjust 131072
> >
> > I found xauth here:
> >
> > /usr/openwin/bin/xauth
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I don't really know Solaris that well, but maybe a $PATH problem?
>
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