Mark Felder <f...@feld.me> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:06:33 -0500, Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com> > wrote: > > > xauth not in your path? > > ssh -Y skips all auth stuff so you don't need xauth; he said that > didn't work either :-(
Well, apparently, even -Y needs xauth (which was not installed on the 8.1 system) on the ssh server -- although not on the ssh client. After installing it: $ ssh -Y fbsd81 'echo DISPLAY=%$DISPLAY%' /usr/local/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/perryh/.Xauthority DISPLAY=%localhost:10.0% and -X also works :) so this turns out to have been the solution. Next question: shouldn't I have gotten some kind of error message when attempting "ssh -X" or "ssh -Y" when xauth wasn't available? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
