X11-forwarding over SSH didn't work!

Peter Lemenkov petro at mail.ru
Fri Nov 18 14:15:08 UTC 2005


On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

>> Please note, that *all* openssh-clients at the whole Planet use hardcoded
>> path to xauth, and only Fedora Core switches to the modular X. Can we
>> enforce all of 'em to use new, patched ssh-client? Even theoretically?

> I *think* (not having looked at the code) that xauth is being called by
> the ssh daemon.

"Mea culpa!"
Sure, it's called by the sshd.

[petro at Petro ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/sshd | grep X11R6
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
[petro at Petro ~]$


-- 
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.





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