Re: SSH X11Forwarding not working - what am I doing wrong.
On Saturday 12 Nov 2005 07:33, David Kirchner wrote:
> 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.
Fabulous - thank you.
Now works a treat.
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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