X11-forwarding over SSH didn't work!

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Nov 18 16:21:39 UTC 2005


Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> 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 ~]$

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173568
I tried to fix openssh last night, but it fails to build because modular 
X seems to be missing gccmakedep that previously was in xorg-x11-devel. 
  I am attempting to get gccmakedep back, but we may have run out of time.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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