Wishlist: addition to FAQ 2.7

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Tue Apr 18 18:25:45 EST 2006


Tero Tilus wrote:
> After making quite a few circles around one particular issue (and
> eventually resolving it) I have a suggestion to make:
> 
>   Append the following to http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.7
> 
>   "NOTE: In order to agent forwarding to work you need to have xauth
>   installed in the remote host.  In Debian xauth is in 'xbase-clients'
>   package."

xauth has nothing to do with agent forwarding.  I assume you meant X11 
forwarding?

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