From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 20:50: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ophelia.aquezada.com (ieee-pc0.eecg.toronto.edu [128.100.21.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1809B14D5C for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 20:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunn@ophelia.aquezada.com) Received: from localhost (jdunn@localhost) by ophelia.aquezada.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA15553; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:50:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jdunn@ophelia.aquezada.com) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:50:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Julian C. Dunn" To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd won't do X11 forwarding In-Reply-To: <199903220442.XAA06256@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > I've installed sshd on a 2.2.8-S box, and although I can ssh into it fine, it > > won't do X11 forwarding. It says "warning: X11 forwarding denied by server, > > perhaps xauth could not be run?" However, I have checked to see that xauth is > > in everyone's default path, and ordinary users can run it. > > > > Anyone had this problem before? Solutions? > > I see, > > Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding, perhaps xauth program could not be run on the server side. > > Each time I log into one of my machines. But that is because the > machine in question does not have X installed. I assume there is no > "solution" since their is no X to forward. > > Do both machines in question have X installed? How was sshd installed, > by port or package? If it was done by package, did the build machine > compile in X support? The machine does have X installed. X was installed by package when I installed the system, but I later installed sshd by port. I presume that by doing that, X support was compiled in. - Julian -- Julian C. Dunn IEEE Student Branch, Systems Administrator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message