misc/163180: ssh X11 forwarding broken in FreeBSD 9.0

[Stephen Sanders]

I removed my symlink of /usr/bin/xauth to /usr/local/bin/xauth,
re-booted all of my test systems, and retried the ssh -X test. 

Everything worked properly. 

Ubuntu ssh -X clients were able to connect to FreeBSD 9.0 sshd and run
nautilus.   Similarly, FreeBSD 8.1 ssh -X  clients were able to connect
to FreeBSD 9.0 and run nautilus.

Sorry for all the bother but this really was failing this past weekend. 
DISPLAY was not  being set on the sshd side so X clients were failing to
start.

I guess this is some form of use head space and this bug report should
be terminated with prejudice.

On 12/13/2011 12:11 PM, gavin at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: ssh X11 forwarding broken in FreeBSD 9.0
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: gavin
> State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 13 17:03:32 UTC 2011
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Hi,
>
> It's not clear to me whether this is indeed a bug with a port, and if
> so which port it would be a bug with.
>
> Can you give me some more information please:
>  - What is the operating system of the machine that you are SSing from?
>  - What is the operating system of the machine that you are SSing to?
>  - What is the output of:
>     ls -l `which ssh` `which sshd`
>     strings `which ssh` | grep xauth
>     strings `which sshd` | grep xauth
>    on both the host you are SSHing from, and to?
>
> I've just checked on my system, and it does appear that the FreeBSD
> side of thigs appears to correctly use /usr/local/bin/xauth - so I'm
> wondering if the problem is elsewhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
>
>
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin
> Responsible-Changed-By: gavin
> Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 13 17:03:32 UTC 2011
> Responsible-Changed-Why: 
> Track
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=163180
>