xorg 7.2 install and remote ssh
Wesley Shields
wxs at atarininja.org
Thu May 24 17:58:57 UTC 2007
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Henri-Pierre Charles wrote:
> Hello list, I did an xorg 7.2 upgrade
> (My way is to pkg_delete -a then do a lot of pkg_add -r on
> package-6-stable)
>
> The upgrade was ok. But I was unable to invoque an X client
> remotely via ssh.
>
> Sympthom : ssh -v fail wiith a message "debug1: Remote: No xauth
> program; cannot forward with spoofing."
>
> I did little research :
> e:~/>strings /usr/bin/ssh |grep xauth
> ../..
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
> ../...
>
> Oh damnit ssh is not aware that /usr/X11R6 is now /usr/local ! :-(
> Bug ?
>
> Turn around: cd /usr/X11R6/bin/; sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/xauth
The directions in UPDATING state that there needs to be a symlink from
/usr/X11R6 to /usr/local.
-- WXS
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