[ale] X over ssh

[David Corbin]

For the record, the problem was that I didn't have xauth installed. 
 Using -vvv made this very clear.

Jason Day wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:39:10AM -0500, David Corbin wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm trying to execute an X application on a remote server, that happens 
>>to be on the far side of a firewall.  I can ssh to the remote server 
>>without problem.  On the remote server, my sshd_config has 
>>"X11Forwarding yes".  When I do "ssh -X remote-server", my DISPLAY 
>>environment variable is not set.
>>    
>>
>
>The first thing that comes to mind is the server can't find the xauth
>executable.  Try "ssh -v -v -v -X remote-server".  That will print out
>lots of debugging information, but it might not tell you anything
>useful.
>
>If you can reach the ssh server on another port (or if you can stop and
>start the main ssh daemon) you can put the server in debug mode with
>"sshd -d -p <port>".  This will cause the daemon not to fork into the
>background, and print debigging information on the console.  That might
>give some clues what's going wrong.
>
>  
>

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