Interesting Change In ssh Behavior

[mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx]

>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>
>> Bill Campbell wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>>> I just recently update one 6.2 and one 4.11 machine to the latest
>>>> stable
>>>> sources and built world.  Now, for some odd reason, I cannot tunnel X
>>>> via ssh from remote clients.  Did the defaults for sshd change lately
>>>> or is there some other culprit?
>>>
>>> First make sure that the sshd_config file on the server machine
>>> has ``X11Forwarding yes'' set.
>
> Had the problem too, had to set
>
> XAuthLocation /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
>
> in ssd_config although this should be the default.
>
> Best regards
>
> Konrad Heuer
> GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2 at gwdg.de
>

if you are using 6.2-STABLE then you have to set:

XAuthLocation /usr/local/bin/xauth

in ssd_config.

and restart the ssh daemon:

/etc/rc.d/sshd restart

Thanks, Konrad.