Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 19:41:07 -0700 From: Ted Faber <faber@lunabase.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSH X11 forwarding fails(!?) - resolved Message-ID: <200006300241.TAA06143@praxis.lunabase.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've (finally) run this down. It is not an OpenSSH bug, nor a direct OpenSSH configuration error. The short answer is that you cannot reset the XAUTHORITY environment variable under OpenSSH and get X11 forwarding. Under the ssh-1.2.27 port it doesn't interfere. Why? OpenSSH creates its own authorization information and sets XAUTHORITY to point to it. My .bashrc was resetting it (a relic from some system where XAUTHORITY was not initialized) and causing a conflict. Just so it's in the mail archive where it might help someone: when you move to OpenSSH from ssh-1.2.27, check to make sure your environment doesn't reset XAUTHORITY. Thanks to the people who made suggestions. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 iD8DBQE5XAjDaUz3f+Zf+XsRApL5AKDB+1Fp/YG4so5eN+2rfyzoOkovcgCg6G6J qvjGCqmjWA/Ymk3u3LhDDhU= =EXhD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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