I thank everybody for their replies. Following Atro's advice, I send an attached file with the output of: 1) "echo $DISPLAY" on local machine (sun) 2) "ssh -v username_HP@remote_HP" Compilation on HP has been done --with-X and I have disactivated login scripts that set the DISPLAY on HP. Compilation on Sun has been done with ./configure (the default, which contains X forwarding). As you can see in the attached file, ssh with -v option complains that: "Failed to get local xauth data"... I would appreciate any help! Yannis. On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Atro Tossavainen wrote: >Dear Yannis, > >Can you please do this: > >(on the Sun, before connecting) > >echo $DISPLAY > >This should return something sensible, like ":0.0" or "machine/unix:0.0" > >Then, connect with the debug flag on: > >ssh -v othermachine > >and send the output of the two commands to the list. > >While it is possible that your ssh on either end has been compiled with >--without-x, it is not the default setting. It is also possible that the >login scripts on the computer you are connecting to are messing up the >DISPLAY set by ssh. However, this would be much more likely if you were >connecting TO the Sun - the Sun csh login scripts ask all sorts of funny >questions that can mess up a pre-set DISPLAY, the HP has (to my knowledge >anyway) no such weird behaviour. > >Regards, > >-- >Atro Tossavainen - email available at URL below - +358-9-850-111-86 >http : / / www . iki . fi / atro . tossavainen / > Yannis ALIFERIS PhD Student in Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering - Microwave Imaging ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laboratoire d'Electronique: Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France tel: +33 4 92 94 28 43, fax: +33 4 92 94 28 12 ECE Department: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Office: 6.22, Electroscience Division tel: +30 1 77 2 36 94, fax: +30 1 77 2 22 81 Valid PGP Public Key IDs: DH/DDS: 0x41FB9DEB, RSA: 0x7781EFB1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
username_Sun@local_Sun: > echo $DISPLAY local_Sun:0.0 username_Sun@local_Sun: > ssh -v username_HP@remote_HP Development-time debugging not compiled in. To enable, configure with --enable-debug and recompile. debug: hostname is 'remote_HP'. Development-time debugging not compiled in. To enable, configure with --enable-debug and recompile. debug: connecting to remote_HP... debug: entering event loop debug: ssh_client_wrap: creating transport protocol debug: ssh_client_wrap: creating userauth protocol debug: Host key found from the database. debug: Ssh2AuthPubKeyClient/authc-pubkey.c:368/ssh_client_auth_pubkey_send_signature: ssh_client_auth_pubkey_send_signature debug: Ssh2AuthPubKeyClient/authc-pubkey.c:448/ssh_client_auth_pubkey_send_signature: ssh_client_auth_pubkey_send_signature: reading /home/users/grads/username_Sun/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a_local_Sun Passphrase for key "/home/users/grads/username_Sun/.ssh2/id_dsa_1024_a_local_Sun" with comment "1024-bit dsa, username_Sun@local_Sun, Wed Nov 10 1999 17:50:17": debug: Ssh2/ssh2.c:304/client_authenticated: client_authenticated debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug: Failed to get local xauth data.
