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

[Gregory Youngblood]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> 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.

Guess I'm missing something, because X forwarding works just fine for me. Use it quite a bit, but I did further testing just now to confirm. Both OI 148 and 151 ssh -X works just fine for x forwarding. And I just confirmed I'm using the default Sun SSH. I tested ssh -X from a mac to OI 151 and 148 and between 151 and 148.

Greg