5.1p1 and X11 forwarding failing

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Jeff Blaine wrote:

> I'm really scratching my head on this one.  The server
> is running OpenSSH 5.1p1 on Solaris 9.  The authentication
> is via PAM if that matters.
> 
> # grep X11 sshd_config | sed '/^#/D'
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> X11UseLocalhost yes
> #
> 
> Now I attach to my 'master' sshd and follow all children
> to look for any evidence of "DISPLAY":
> 
> # truss -f -a -e -p 14923 2>&1 | grep DISPLAY
> 
> I then fire up ssh -X from a client machine, login, and
> truss reports nothing.

truss is a really poor tool to diagnose ssh problems. Please post
ssh and sshd debug traces.

-d