Make sure that the directory xauth is in, probably /usr/openwin/bin, is in your PATH. Eric -----Original Message----- From: Julian McDermott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ssh I am getting the following error installing ssh-1.2.31. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? # ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 checking cached information... ok checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking that the compiler works... yes checking if the compiler understands -pipe... yes checking whether to enable -Wall... no checking return type of signal handlers... void checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -pipe -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes checking for off_t... yes checking for mode_t... yes checking for st_blksize in struct stat... yes checking for working const... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes checking size of long... 4 checking size of int... 4 checking size of short... 2 checking for termios.h... yes checking for utmpx.h... yes checking whether utmpx have ut_syslen field... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for rusage.h... no checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for lastlog.h... yes checking for utmp.h... yes checking for shadow.h... yes checking for sgtty.h... yes checking for sys/select.h... yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes checking for machine/endian.h... no checking for paths.h... no checking for usersec.h... no checking for utime.h... yes checking for netinet/in_systm.h... yes checking for netinet/in_system.h... no checking for netinet/ip.h... yes checking for netinet/tcp.h... yes checking for ulimit.h... yes checking for sys/resource.h... yes checking for login_cap.h... no checking for sys/stream.h... yes checking for sys/conf.h... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for opendir in -ldir... no checking whether stat file-mode macros are broken... no checking whether sys/types.h defines makedev... no checking for sys/mkdev.h... yes checking whether utmp have ut_pid field... yes checking whether utmp have ut_name field... no checking whether utmp have ut_id field... yes checking whether utmp have ut_host field... no checking whether utmp have ut_addr field... no checking whether you have incompatible SIGINFO macro... no checking for crypt in -lc... yes checking for getspnam in -lsec... yes checking for get_process_stats in -lseq... no checking for bcopy in -lbsd... no checking for main in -lnsl... yes checking for socket in -lsocket... yes checking for getpwnam in -lsun... no checking for openpty in -lbsd... no checking for login in -lutil... no checking for vhangup... yes checking for setsid... yes checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for times... yes checking for getrusage... yes checking for ftruncate... yes checking for revoke... no checking for makeutx... yes checking for strchr... yes checking for memcpy... yes checking for setlogin... no checking for openpty... no checking for _getpty... no checking for clock... yes checking for fchmod... yes checking for ulimit... yes checking for gethostname... yes checking for getdtablesize... yes checking for umask... yes checking for innetgr... yes checking for initgroups... yes checking for setpgrp... yes checking for setpgid... yes checking for daemon... no checking for waitpid... yes checking for ttyslot... yes checking for authenticate... no checking for getpt... no checking for isastream... yes checking for chflags... no checking for strerror... yes checking for memmove... yes checking for remove... yes checking for random... yes checking for putenv... yes checking for crypt... yes checking for socketpair... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for makedepend... no checking for makedep... no checking for X... libraries , headers checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... no checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... no checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... (cached) yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for passwd... /usr/bin/passwd checking for xauth... no configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting