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Re: ssh -X and xauth



On 2004-03-08T18:09:20+0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:01:39PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> > `local$ ssh -X remote; remote$ ssh-agent screen; remote$ galeon &` (';'
> > is short hand for enter) broke for me with a recent ssh upgrade.

For the archives, let me cut this down a bit:

local$ ssh -X remote; galeon
** (galeon-bin:11290): WARNING **: Spinner animation not found

** (galeon-bin:11290): WARNING **: Spinner animation not found
The program 'galeon-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 653 error_code 5 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful

> Have you read the bit in ssh_config(5) about ForwardX11Trusted?

Yes, and as I am root on both systems I am fine with doing it.  Just wanted to
understand if there was a better alternative really.


/Allan
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Allan Wind
P.O. Box 2022
Woburn, MA 01888-0022
USA

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