Jon TURNEY <jon.turney <at> dronecode.org.uk> writes: > > On 08/08/2011 17:49, Howard Feil wrote: > > The OS of the target machines was CENTOS 5.5 and 5.4 > > > > [root <at> MQWKS4 ~]# ssh -V > > OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008 > [logs snipped] > > Thanks very much for the information. I am now able to reproduce this issue. > > This appears to be a change in the ssh client so that ForwardX11Timeout > applies, even if untrusted authentication cookie generation failed (See [1]). > > It looks like this change first appeared in openssh 5.6, although I can't see > it mentioned in the announce email. > > Note that if you had run ssh -v, you should have got a "Rejected X11 > connection after ForwardX11Timeout expired" explaining what was happening > > I guess I'll add something in the Cygwin/X FAQ about this.
Is there a work-around for this problem? I (too) often get timed out when ssh'ing into sites on which I need X-windows (so I use ssh -Y). I have no such problems when using a non-X console to ssh into these sites. Thanks. Lester -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/