On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 17:53:37 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2018 13:11:45 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:43:40PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > #1 is ssh -Y has been killed from jessie on. No excuse for doing it > > > and bug filing is ignored. > > > > I don't know what you mean by this. I just performed the following > > experiment on my stretch workstation (wooledg), in communications with > > a stretch server (arc3) elsewhere on our network. > > > > 1) Already logged into wooledg, I opened a new urxvt window. > > > > 2) In this window, I typed: ssh -Y arc3 > > > > 3) After authenticating to arc3 with a password, at the shell prompt, > > I typed: xterm > > > > 4) After a moment, a new xterm window appeared on my display. > > Thats expected. Now enter synaptic-pkexec. It should ask you, if you are > user 1000, for a passwd and given it, it will run. But after wheezy, its > not possible. LinuxCNC's graphics needs are modest, and it will run, as > the user. But its not root. And root is denied regardless of how you go > about obtaining root permissions. For me, its a right PITA because I am > forced to goto that machines keyboard/monitor location when there is > something I need to install. And those, with a single exception, are all > standup, look up at the monitor and get a sore neck from tilting ones > head back far enough to get the bi section of my trifocals up so I can > read what the monitor is telling me. I presume all this discomfort is > the result of somebody deciding that root cannot be trusted to export > the gui of the program he wants to run. > > That to me is quite similar to the warm, sometimes steaming green/brown > piles of used food for the male of the bovine specie. > > It is my machine, let me run it the way /I/ want. > > > > 5) Inside this xterm, to confirm that the xterm was running on arc3, > > I typed: uname -a > > > > Terminal sessions shown without modification: > > > > ===================================================== > > wooledg:~$ ssh -Y arc3 > > wooledg@arc3's password: > > Linux arc3 4.9.0-8-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u5 (2018-09-30) > > i686 > > > > The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free > > software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described > > in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. > > > > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent > > permitted by applicable law. > > Last login: Mon Oct 1 17:18:16 2018 from 10.76.172.97 > > $ xterm > > > > ===================================================== > > $ uname -a > > Linux arc3 4.9.0-8-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u5 (2018-09-30) > > i686 GNU/Linux $ > > ===================================================== > > > > So, I don't know why you believe that ssh's -Y option has been > > "killed". If you are having trouble with it, start a new thread and we > > can try to help you figure out what's wrong. > > See above, and tell me again that its not /now/ broken. I need some > levity at my age. > > As for the new thread, I have posted to this list 3 or 4 times about this > and got nothing but crickets. After a while, one gets the impression its > a verboten question.
I was under the impression that your ssh X forwarding problem was fixed https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/09/msg00836.html as was your synaptic problem https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/09/msg00870.html or have you changed your mind? Cheers, David.