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

[Dr. A. B. <be...@ec...>]

Can you try the Python X Library (contain xauth prog) to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-xlib ?

Alberto

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Heiko Zuerker" <he...@zu...>
To: dev...@li...
Sent: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:13:50 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: [Devil-linux-develop] SSH X forwarding broken.

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