I am not quite sure whether this is a bug, or just that I am asking for something unreasonable. But here goes anyway.
I installed a machine to act as a firewall today, using Debian stable. I did not install X-Free on it as the machine is a touch underpowered for that. So I though I will install fwbuilder and use it remotely using ssh -X. I am running kernel 2.4.18 on this machine so I wanted to use iptables. So I used apt-get to install fwbuilder-iptables which duely dragged in all the other bits it thought I needed. But from a remote console I could not issue "ssh -X firewall fwbuilder" because it kept saying that the display was not authorised. So I turned on ssh -v and watched the messages, and it mentioned that it could not find xauth. So I looked up the package for xauth and that is xbase-clients, and sure enough that had not been dragged in by the dependancy chain for fwbuilder. When I installed xbase-clients sure enough fwbuilder worked remotely through ssh -X. Now I suspect that this is not a problem with fwbuilder's dependancies, but I am not quite sure whose problem it is. Any ideas? David
