Re: SSH X11Forwarding not working - what am I doing wrong.
On 11/11/05, Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> But nothing is happening. Firstly, I would have expected on the remote
> machine for the DISPLAY variable to have been set to localhost:10.0, but it
> is unset, but even if I set it manually, there doesn't seem to be a channel
> there (X programs complain they can't connect to the display)
>
> My guess is that there is some other configuration (PAM or something like
> that) that I should also be tweaking to allow this. Anyone any ideas what?
What does ssh -v say when you try to connect? I'm guessing it's something like:
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
If so, you'll need to install the xbase-clients package to get xauth.
There may be some way to do this without "authentication spoofing",
but I don't know it.
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