X11 Forwarding and Red Hat

[Matthew C. Weigel]

I just got around to upgrading th 2.1.0p2-1, and X11 forwarding is working
great.  Thanks all.

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Markus Friedl wrote:

> does this help?
> 
> Index: session.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/markus/cvs/ssh/session.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.12
> diff -u -r1.12 session.c
> --- session.c	2000/05/03 18:03:07	1.12
> +++ session.c	2000/05/18 19:18:53
> @@ -949,13 +953,20 @@
>  		else {
>  			/* Add authority data to .Xauthority if appropriate. */
>  			if (auth_proto != NULL && auth_data != NULL) {
> -				if (debug_flag)
> +				char *screen = strchr(display, ':');
> +				if (debug_flag) {
>  					fprintf(stderr, "Running %.100s add %.100s %.100s %.100s\n",
> -						XAUTH_PATH, display, auth_proto, auth_data);
> -
> +					    XAUTH_PATH, display, auth_proto, auth_data);
> +					if (screen != NULL)
> +						fprintf(stderr, "Adding %.*s/unix%s %s %s\n",
> +						    screen-display, display, screen, auth_proto, auth_data);
> +				}
>  				f = popen(XAUTH_PATH " -q -", "w");
>  				if (f) {
>  					fprintf(f, "add %s %s %s\n", display, auth_proto, auth_data);
> +					if (screen != NULL) 
> +						fprintf(f, "add %.*s/unix%s %s %s\n",
> +						     screen-display, display, screen, auth_proto, auth_data);
>  					pclose(f);
>  				} else
>  					fprintf(stderr, "Could not run %s -q -\n", XAUTH_PATH);
> 

 Matthew Weigel
 Programmer/Sysadmin/Student
 weigel+ at pitt.edu