Wishlist: addition to FAQ 2.7

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg-openssh.com at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Apr 19 00:23:54 EST 2006


On April 19, dtucker at zip.com.au said:

 > No, xauth gets used on both client and server.  Try "ssh -vvv -X
 > somehost" and you will see the client running xauth.

ah.  right.  i think i've never seen someone try to forward X11 to a
local X11 workstation that *doesn't* have xauth (though i suppose such
machines must exist).  But i've certainly seen people beat their head
against the wall trying to forward X11 connections from an xauth-less
server.

Maybe "on both the client and the server" then?  For folks who already
know how X11 works, this information is probably redundant (and it's
certainly implied by the "sshd_config and ssh_config" reference).  But
this FAQ is for the folks who don't know yet, right?

	--dkg




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