X11 forwarding under Linux

[Jeff Baitis]

Hello, I have been having issues with x11 forwarding using my
linux-mandrake based servers. I checked my XAUTHORITY variable and it was
set to ~/.Xauthority ... After reading the mail archives, I found the
/tmp/ssh* directory created during my ssh session, and did this:

export XAUTHORITY="/tmp/ssh-hzuA1805/cookies"
xeyes

...and the X11 forwarding worked!

I'm using the openssh-2.2.0p1-2 openssh-askpass-2.2.0p1-2
openssh-clients-2.2.0p1-2 openssh-server-2.2.0p1-2 rpm packages.

I look forward to running a version of openSSH-linux to have x11
forwarding working !!!

Please see reference to:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=secure-shell&m=96808107729963&w=2

If you respond, please cc your response to baitisj at cyberdude.com as I am
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Thank you for your excellent software,
Jeff

> When you're sshed in, check the XAUTHORITY variable. It should be
> something like /tmp/ssh-efPeK778/cookies . /etc/profile.d/xhost.sh
> should be something like this: