ssh forwarding question

Pollywog lists-fbsd at shadypond.com
Tue Sep 11 11:59:44 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 11 September 2007 17:30:55 Bob Johnson wrote:

>
> It should have already been in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.  So the mystery
> to be solved is why it was not there (or what you had in /etc/rc.conf
> that overrode it, maybe). When you installed FBSD, did you do a
> "standard" install or one of the "expert" installs?
>
> And of course, since it was 7.0, you can expect things to be broken
> once in a while. It is what most of the world would call "beta" code.
> The quick fix is to put the required line in either
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf. Normally you would never edit
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf, but that line should have been in it.

I did a standard install and was not able to use ssh forwarding from this 
machine.  I upgraded to 7 and was still unable to do it.  I had to have 
messed something up during my initial install.  My other machine runs 6.2 and 
did not have this problem.


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