After much research into why the X11 forwarding failed for users other than root, it seems that Mandrake blindly sets the location of .Xauthority to ~/.Xauthority, instead of in /tmp as root requires. This happens to everyone except root. If interested, more info is at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=95428316310940&w=2 The solution is simple for me, "xauth merge /tmp/ssh-xxxx/cookies this seems to fix it for the mandrake-crypto version, as I did not want to recompile a newer version. -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
