Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote:
>> > > I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I
>> > > get
>> > > the following errors:
>> > >
>> > > usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "unix:10.0" in "remove"
>> > > command
>> > > /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad display name "unix:10.0" in "add"
>> > > command
>> > >
>> > > And I cannit get ssh to foward the X protocol. Yes I have added
>> > >
>> > > ForwardX11 yes to /etc/ssh/ssh_config
>> > >
>> > > What am I doing wrong?
>> > >
>> >
>> > I assume you have xserver on the FreeBSD box? Check your display name.
>> > I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be 'hostname:0:0'.
>> >
>> Perhaps I was not clear. Yes I do have the X server running on the FreeBSD
>> machine, but that should not matter, as I am ssh'ing _from_ the Linux box
>> which does have a working X server on it also, and can ssh to other
>> machines and get X fowarded corectly.
>>
>
> You need an xserver to connect *to*, which is why I asked.
No, Stan is right; an X server is only needed on the machine that
actually hosts the display.
The xauth error message are indicating the problem, but I don't
know what they're telling us. The hostname should probably be
"localhost", and sshd_config is set up to do that by default.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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