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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:49:38 -0500
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        "Dominic Mitchell" <hdm@mistral.co.uk>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: xauth and latest stable world
Message-ID:  <009601c026f7$73966e70$ff01060a@metamoris.com>
References:  <004901c026f1$8a490930$ff01060a@metamoris.com> <20000925144112.A26024@bizboz.mistral.co.uk>

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Thanks.  That is what happened.  It was my client end.  I had X packet
forwarding turned on.  Oops.  It was not a problem with FreeBSD at all.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk>
To: Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@veldy.net>
Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: xauth and latest stable world


> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:07:20AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > I just rebuilt world yesterday on one of my machines.  Now, when I
login, I
> > get an error message, "/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: not found".  I don't have X
> > installed (obviously).  I have never received this before, so I am
wondering
> > which of the scripts changed and is now looking for this, and shouldn't
be.
>
> This means that ssh is trying to set up a forwarded X connection from
> that server.  I suspect that the defaults recently changed...  In order
> to stop it, edit either ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/config and put in a
> line:
>
> ForwardX11 no
>
> Which should stop it.
>
> -Dom
>



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