Toby Blake brought up a forwarding question that is causing trouble because
of (lack of) permissions to get to the cookies file, but I have a couple
different questions about X11 Forwarding.
1) Has anyone ever seen a java application *partially* malfunction when
displayed over a forwarded X11 connection with ssh 1.2.x? I exchanged a
lot of email with Nortel support, trying to figure out why there were terrible
redraw problems with their Java-based network app, Optivity Infocenter. It
turns out the problem is that the application won't redraw correctly when run
over an X11 forwarded connection. It will come up, but buttons are missing,
etc. It's probably the strangest X11 forwarding problem I've ever seen with
ssh, and I've been using ssh a long time...
2) Because of this problem and because we just want to switch to OpenSSH
anyway, I've begun experimenting with OpenSSH on a couple of our platforms.
When connecting from an alpha-dec-osf5.1 box with OpenSSH 2.9p2 to a
RedHat 7.1 box with OpenSSH 2.5.2p2, X11 forwarding fails because "X11
connection uses different authentication protocol". Note that X11 Forwarding
is enabled on both boxes -- the failure is coming because they apparently
can't agree on a common authentication protocol.
How do I debug this problem further? My guess is one end is trying to use
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE authentication and the other end is using something else,
but I don't see how I get that info out of the two ends. Am I going to have
to resort to running both ends under a debugger?
Thanks
Tim
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North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
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