From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18141 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2010 16:50:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 18132 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Sep 2010 16:50:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mta5.appstate.edu (HELO mta5.appstate.edu) (152.10.1.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:50:21 +0000 Received: from [152.10.148.239] (ip-152010148239.geo.appstate.edu [152.10.148.239]) by mta5.appstate.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o83Gf6fF013121 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:41:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4C812520.8080601@appstate.edu> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:50:00 -0000 From: "Scott T. Marshall" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: No xauth program References: <4C7EA987.9090006@appstate.edu> <4C7FBEAD.3020208@dronecode.org.uk> <4C7FE53C.1070606@appstate.edu> <4C8029BD.7010204@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C8029BD.7010204@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the Helpdesk @ 6266 for more information X-Appstate-MailScanner-ID: o83Gf6fF013121 X-MailScanner-ASU-mta: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 Brilliant!!! That did the trick. Thanks so much. This was really driving me crazy. Cheers, -Scott On 9/2/2010 6:48 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> On 9/2/2010 11:11 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: >>> On 01/09/2010 20:29, Scott T. Marshall wrote: >>>> when I connect using >>>> >>>> ssh -Yv localhost >>>> >>>> the last few lines of output are: >>>> >>>> debug1: Entering interactive session. >>>> debug1: No xauth program. >>>> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 >>>> forwarding. >>>> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. >>>> debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. >>>> Last login: Wed Sep 1 15:03:40 2010 from ::1 >>>> >>>> I don't understand the No xauth program part. I have xauth in /bin >>>> which xauth >>>> returns >>>> /usr/bin/xauth >>>> and when I check the permissions on xauth, I see that they are 755 and >>>> I am >>>> the owner. >>> >>> You might like to try if xauth can actually run successfully? >>> > On 02/09/2010 18:56, Scott T. Marshall wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestion Jon. I don't know exactly what I should ask >> xauth to >> do or what syntax is requires (the man page was not completely clear >> to me), >> but what I can say is that if I try to execute xauth in an xterm, it >> gives no >> errors. >> I can also say that when I ssh to other linux machines, I can open X >> applications, but my cygwin/windows 7 x64 box will not forward x >> windows when >> someone log onto it. > > Hmm... it looks like the latest openssh package has the wrong default > path to xauth for some reason. > > As a workaround, you might try adding XAuthLocation=/usr/bin/xauth to > /etc/sshd_config and restarting sshd. > -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Scott T. Marshall Department Of Geology Appalachian State University 572 Rivers St. Boone, NC 28608 http://www.appstate.edu/~marshallst/ ftp://pm.appstate.edu/pub/prog/marshallst/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/