x forwarding?

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:41:22 AM walter harms did opine:

> Am 14.03.2012 16:24, schrieb gene heskett:
> > On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:11:14 AM Adam Jackson did opine:
> >> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 03:27 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> >>> ssh -Y first machine works, and uses Display:10:0, ssh -Y second
> >>> machine doesn't, tries & fails to use Display 0:0.
> >>> 
> >>> Where & what does it take to enable the 2nd one? (not normally at
> >>> the same time)
> >> 
> >> Either:
> >> 
> >> a) The shell you launched ssh from for the second machine didn't have
> >> $DISPLAY set,
> > 
> > Same shell on this machine. login to shop works, to lathe doesn't. If
> > its the login shell on the second machine, how do I set that?  And
> > why should it be different since the install cd was the exact same
> > cd?
> > 
> > I had to completely blacklist/disable ipv6 on the machine the XForward
> > isn't working on.
> 
> There is an issue with ipv6 an certain ssh configurations. I had this
> problem you can see some strange errors in /var/log/
> 
> >> b) sshd_config for the second machine doesn't have "X11Forwarding
> >> yes" in it.
> > 
> > Contains, apparently by default:
> > 
> > X11Forwarding yes
> > X11DisplayOffset 10>
> > 
> >> - ajax
> > 
> > I was pointed at the xauth command to fix this, but that man page has
> > to rank near the top for all time obtuseness, and when executed on
> > the non- working machine, returns:
> > 
> > gene at lathe:~$ pwd
> > /home/gene
> > gene at lathe:~$ xauth list
> > xauth:  creating new authority file /home/gene/.Xauthority
> > gene at lathe:~$ cat .Xauthority
> > cat: .Xauthority: No such file or directory
> > 
> > for as many times as you want to hit the up-arrow & return.
> 
> This is strange, when ssh starts it should create the files.
> i assume you did the ssh -v ?
> 
Which gets noisy, but the last 2 lines are:
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0

Thanks.  And I'll have to get back to this later, I am putting a new engine 
in my pickup too.
> re,
>  wh
> 
> > Any better ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks all.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene


Cheers, Gene
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