[Devil-linux-develop] SSH X forwarding broken.

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

I need to ssh into my DL firewall, and then ssh into a machine on my
internal network with X11 forwarding turned on.  I turned on ForwardX11
in the ssh config files, and it doesn't work.  Then I figured out the
problem is because the program 'xauth' doesn't exist on DL.

So I copied xauth from my SuSE 10.1 desktop to /etc/bin/ (new dir), set
"XAuthLocation /etc/bin/xauth" in /etc/ssh/ssh*config files, copied all
the required libraries to /etc/lib/ (new dir), modified /etc/ld.so.conf,
ran ldconfig, and now ssh X11 forwarding works.  (but what a pain!)

Now (you guessed it! :) I'm going to ask if we can add 'xauth' to DL.
The main problem I see is all the required X libraries:

bruce@suse10.1:~> ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7f3a000)
        libXmuu.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmuu.so.1 (0xb7f37000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7f29000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e32000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7d11000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7d0d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f54000)

So, instead of adding 'xauth' the traditional way, is there any way we
can grab xauth and it's libraries from LFS and put them on the CD?
I really hate to add hours of compile time to completely compile x.org
just to get one little program.

 - BS