X forwarding (still) broken on Linux

[Dominik Brettnacher]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, barker at ling.ucsd.edu wrote:

> This may be a lack-of-adequate-documentation problem rather than a bug,
> but I can't get X forwarding to work:
> 
>   localhost$ set | grep DIS
>   DISPLAY=localhost.localdomain:11.0
>   localhost$ set | grep XA
>   XAUTHORITY=/tmp/ssh-gzg13204/cookies
>   localhost$ ssh -v localhost
>   SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5.
>   Compiled with SSL.
> [snip]
>   debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
>   debug: Requesting authentication agent forwarding.
>   debug: Requesting shell.
>   debug: Entering interactive session.
>   Last login: Sat Apr  8 16:11:00 2000 from localhost
>   localhost$ xeyes
>   debug: Received X11 open request.
>   debug: channel 0: new [X11 connection from localhost port 1502]
>   debug: X11 connection uses different authentication protocol.
>   X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> [snip]
>   debug: channel 0: full closed
>   X connection to localhost.localdomain:11.0 broken (explicit kill or
>   server shutd
>   own).
>   localhost$ 
>   
> I'm running a 2.2.13 kernel, XFree86 3.3.5-0, and pam 0.68-10.
> Examination of X11 packets suggests that my X clients aren't even
> trying to send a cookie, despite the fact that the XAUTHORITY
> variable is correctly set.  Ssh 2.0.13 used to work just fine...

I am having the same problem on FreeBSD. I haven't got any clue,
unfortunately.

-- 
Dominik - http://www.brettnacher.org/users/dominik/