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

Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> · Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:13:04 -0500

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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