Why is it that ssh with X11 auth forwarding fails -sometimes- on FC[23]?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 09:29 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 21:49 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > The FC3 host is the sshd server.  Same for FC2: the sshd server.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Yes.  It seems to say everything is fine, but then it still doesn't work
> > most of the time.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > tesuji-strombrg> xterm
> > X connection to tesuji.nac.uci.edu:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> > shutdown).
> 
> I'm late to this thread, so maybe I missed this but are you sure X
> forwarding is enabled for the FC3 server?  the default behavior changed
> from FC2 to FC3 WRT X forwarding in openssh.
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html

Thanks for the tip.  Does it appear that this is saying that FC3's
client-side ssh behavior changed?

I'm ssh'ing from RHEL 3 to FC2 and FC3, and having problems with that.
RHEL 3 doesn't seem to have the new -X behavior yet


> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- 
> Craig Thomas <cjtinhp at optonline.net>
>