On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 05:54:56 PM Johannes Truschnigg did opine: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:43:01AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:41:22 AM walter harms did opine: > > [...] > > Which gets noisy, but the last 2 lines are: > > debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. > > X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 > > Check if you have the xauth(1) program installed on the remote host > you're connecting to, and install it if it's not there yet. It missing > has been the reason for X11 forwarding not to work for me (with similar > symptoms as you are experiencing) in the past. ssh(1) tries to execute > xauth on the remote side of the connection if X11 forwardinf is > requested by the client, and will not explicitly state it has failed > doing so.
It was installed, I reinstalled it, and executed an xhost + using sudo No observable change. The complete "ssh -Y -v lathe" session is: [gene@coyote ~]$ ssh -Y -v lathe OpenSSH_5.9p2, OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 49: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to lathe [192.168.71.5] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/identity-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gene/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu7 debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu7 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Server host key: RSA 67:fc:f6:d4:95:8c:46:6d:81:fe:dc:d2:85:a4:f5:76 debug1: Host 'lathe' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/gene/.ssh/known_hosts:10 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: Roaming not allowed by server debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/gene/.ssh/identity debug1: Trying private key: /home/gene/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /home/gene/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Trying private key: /home/gene/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Next authentication method: password gene@lathe's password: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password Permission denied, please try again. gene@lathe's password: debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). Authenticated to lathe ([192.168.71.5]:22). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting no-more-sessi...@openssh.com debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 Linux lathe 2.6.32-122-rtai #rtai SMP Tue Jul 27 12:44:07 CDT 2010 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ Last login: Wed Mar 14 11:40:43 2012 from coyote.coyote.den gene@lathe:~$ xhost xhost: unable to open display "" gene@lathe:~$ xauth list xauth: creating new authority file /home/gene/.Xauthority gene@lathe:~$ xauth list xauth: creating new authority file /home/gene/.Xauthority gene@lathe:~$ For someone experienced, there might be a clue above. Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> A man with 3 wings and a dictionary is cousin to the turkey. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com