No xauth program

[Scott T. Marshall]

Brilliant!!! That did the trick.
Thanks so much. This was really driving me crazy.
Cheers,
-Scott

On 9/2/2010 6:48 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 9/2/2010 11:11 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> On 01/09/2010 20:29, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
>>>> when I connect using
>>>>
>>>> ssh -Yv localhost
>>>>
>>>> the last few lines of output are:
>>>>
>>>> debug1: Entering interactive session.
>>>> debug1: No xauth program.
>>>> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
>>>> forwarding.
>>>> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
>>>> debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
>>>> Last login: Wed Sep 1 15:03:40 2010 from ::1
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand the No xauth program part. I have xauth in /bin
>>>> which xauth
>>>> returns
>>>> /usr/bin/xauth
>>>> and when I check the permissions on xauth, I see that they are 755 and
>>>> I am
>>>> the owner.
>>>
>>> You might like to try if xauth can actually run successfully?
>>>
> On 02/09/2010 18:56, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion Jon. I don't know exactly what I should ask
>> xauth to
>> do or what syntax is requires (the man page was not completely clear
>> to me),
>> but what I can say is that if I try to execute xauth in an xterm, it
>> gives no
>> errors.
>> I can also say that when I ssh to other linux machines, I can open X
>> applications, but my cygwin/windows 7 x64 box will not forward x
>> windows when
>> someone log onto it.
>
> Hmm... it looks like the latest openssh package has the wrong default
> path to xauth for some reason.
>
> As a workaround, you might try adding XAuthLocation=/usr/bin/xauth to
> /etc/sshd_config and restarting sshd.
>

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Scott T. Marshall
Department Of Geology
Appalachian State University
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Boone, NC 28608

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