Hi-
I believe that I have found a bug / hole in the packaging related to
ssh2 / xauth.
In order for X11 forwarding to work, sshd needs to run xauth, which is
included in the xbase-clients package, but is not a pre-req for ssh2, or
generally for x clients (sich as xemacs21).
You can duplicate the problem with the following steps:
install woody bare-bones, no x11 server / clients at all.
apt-get install xemacs21
fix your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to support forwarding:
#Enable x11 forwarding over ssh
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
SSH to this machine from another with ssh forwarding enabled and
attempt to tunnel the connection through (ssh -X headless.machine), it
won't work, as there is no xauth to set the display.
Perhaps xauth should be seperated into it's own package, apart from
xbase-clients, which is recommended by or a dependency of ssh2. Or it's
necessity could be indicated in the documentation.
thanks,
erik
