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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:21:51 +1030
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg XFree86 compatibility issues.
Message-ID:  <200603170821.51477.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060316194509.GB30476@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200603162247.01705.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20060316194509.GB30476@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:15 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:47:01PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > My primary activity at home is on a machine "alpha" running
> > FBSD 5.4 and Xorg version of X. But I have a couple of other
> > machines running older systems FBSD 4.9, "beta" and RedHat
> > linux, "linux" both running XFree86.
> >
> > I can ssh into both these from "alpha" and run a number
> > ofcommon X processes without apparent difficulty. EG:
> > alpha:200> ssh -X -f beta xterm
> > ,
> > alpha:201> -X -f linux xterm
> > or
> > alpha:202> -X -f beta xv
> >
> > But others fall over. EG:
> > alpha:203> ssh -X -f beta xfig
> > alpha:204> X Error of failed request:  BadAccess (attempt to
> > access private resource denied)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  102
> > (X_ChangeKeyboardControl) Serial number of failed request: 
> > 303
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  304
>
> You want ssh -Y, not ssh -X.  This is not an Xorg/Xfree86
> issue, but a new OpenSSH/old OpenSSH change.
>
Fantastic!

Thanks Kris.

Shows how easy it is for me to jump to the wrong conclusion ;)

Malcolm

> Kris



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