Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Do some of the checkbox installs omit it? I just ran into this on a system where I chose the 'web server' install, then wanted to run gparted remotely. Yes, it's definitely possible to install without it. I've done the same as you when setting up

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/29/11 12:58 AM, John Hodrien wrote: Yes, it's definitely possible to install without it. I've done the same as you when setting up servers and had to add xauth afterwards to get remote X working. It's a real gotcha for people who don't know about it, as other than DISPLAY not being

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, John R Pierce wrote: well, there's the subtle clue that the first time you log onto a particular account with X forwarding, xauth prints a message about saving the .Xauth file Sure, but that means you're looking for absence of an info message (that you typically don't

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, October 29, 2011 07:28:27 AM John Hodrien wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, John R Pierce wrote: well, there's the subtle clue that the first time you log onto a particular account with X forwarding, xauth prints a message about saving the .Xauth file Sure, but that means

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Do some of the checkbox installs omit it?   I just ran into this on a system where I chose the 'web server' install, then wanted to run gparted remotely. Yes, it's

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Do some of the checkbox installs omit it?   I just ran into this on a system where I chose the 'web server' install, then wanted to

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, October 29, 2011 07:26:04 PM John Hodrien wrote: ssh tells you when it creates a .Xauthority file for the first time. Why does it do that? Being totally pedantic here, but isn't it /usr/bin/xauth that issues the message telling that the .Xauthority file has been created?

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Saturday, October 29, 2011 07:26:04 PM John Hodrien wrote: ssh tells you when it creates a .Xauthority file for the first time.  Why does it do that? Being totally pedantic here, but isn't it /usr/bin/xauth that issues the

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-28 Thread Steve Brooks
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: Hi, I have a working configuration with CentOS 6. Can you try to set next lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart SSH server please? #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-28 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Steve Brooks wrote: I have a few sl6.1 worstations that do not have xorg-x11-xauth installed and it does *not* seem to appear in the repos. Yet X11-Forwarding works fine. It's in the base repos for SL, so it definitely should be appearing. Without a functioning xauth,

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 28, 2011 04:10:05 AM Steve Brooks wrote: I have a few sl6.1 worstations that do not have xorg-x11-xauth installed and it does *not* seem to appear in the repos. Yet X11-Forwarding works fine. That's mighty strange, as a basically scratch SL6.1 install here shows:

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-28 Thread Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
El 28/10/11 10:30, John Hodrien escribió: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Steve Brooks wrote: I have a few sl6.1 worstations that do not have xorg-x11-xauth installed and it does *not* seem to appear in the repos. Yet X11-Forwarding works fine. It's in the base repos for SL, so it definitely should be

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-28 Thread Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
oop my fail! I have mistyped one character :( [root@Carmen tmp]# rpm -qa| grep -i xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.2-7.1.el6.x86_64 [root@Carmen tmp]# rpm -qa|grep -i xorg-x11-auth [root@Carmen tmp]# So, yes,.. I have that packet installed! Sorry for the misunderstood. Just the lack

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez lore...@lorenzomartinez.es wrote: oop my fail! I have mistyped one character :( [root@Carmen tmp]# rpm -qa| grep -i xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.2-7.1.el6.x86_64 [root@Carmen tmp]# rpm -qa|grep -i xorg-x11-auth

[CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-26 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi all, I have C6 i386 with cr repo enabled; problem is, I can't get x-forwarding to work, xorg-x11-auth rpm is installed, have checked sshd config for #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 Here is a verbose ssh logon, I can't see any difference to a working server:

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-26 Thread Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
Hi, I have a working configuration with CentOS 6. Can you try to set next lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart SSH server please? #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost yes In fact I do not have xorg-x11-auth rpm installed: [root@Carmen ~]# rpm -qa|grep

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: Hi, I have a working configuration with CentOS 6. Can you try to set next lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart SSH server please? #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost yes In fact I do not have

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-26 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 26.10.2011 15:18, schrieb John Hodrien: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: Hi, I have a working configuration with CentOS 6. Can you try to set next lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart SSH server please? #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset