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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Wed, December 6, 2006 15:29, Bruce Smith wrote:
> 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.

There's no X in the LFS system.
Maybe there's a replacement tool available for cases like this?

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org