[OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 Forwarding.. Can't Open Display

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Aug 24 19:11:26 UTC 2011


On 08/24/11 11:29, Kimmo Jaskari wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 21:08, Kimmo Jaskari <kimmo.jaskari at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ssh -V = Sun_SSH_1.5, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x009080ff
>>
>> Ugh. And let me say again, ugh. This crap (pardon my language) was in
> 
>> Guess I have to go find OpenSSH somewhere. I guess the venerable old
>> Sunfreeware is still around huh.
> 
> I'm getting that old sinking feeling... is Sunfreeware even an option for OI?
> 
> I expected to have trouble installing any kind of end-user facing
> software on this server and ZFS was worth it but I didn't expect SSH
> of all things to balk. OI needs to seriously kick that old trash
> that's installed to the curb and put in proper version 2.0 OpenSSH. :(
> 
> Guess I'll be copying MIT-MAGIC-COOKIEs and liking it huh while I try
> to sort out if I can get OpenSSL and OpenSSH to compile from source.
> Good times.

Is there some reason you don't just "pkg install xauth" and be done with it?
Seems a lot simpler than all this bitching and insulting anyone who could help.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System




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