Re: X11 stuff stopped working after upgrade from SSH2.4.0 to SSH3.2.2

From: Jeff Long (long@ukans.edu)
Date: 01/29/03


From: Jeff Long <long@ukans.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:49:09 -0600

Ah yes, it seems I ran into that problem with 3.2.0 also. I had to set
my DISPLAY to use the full hostname before calling ssh-add2. I never
did find the problem/solution.

Jeff Long

Richard Lefebvre wrote:
> Thanx, this worked for the command ssh, but not for "ssh-add2 < /dev/null"
> which basically calls ssh-askpass2.
>
> Rick
>
> Jeff Long <long@ukans.edu> writes:
>
>
>>Richard Lefebvre wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I just upgraded a bunch of SGI 6.5.X from SSH 2.4.0 to 3.2.2 (from ssh.com).
>>>Everything else is the same. Using the same setup and config, now the
>>>X11 stuff isn't working. The problem is not the forwarding but more of
>>>the fact that ssh apps can't grab the DISPLAY even if another application
>>>is able to. Say I have a host name "hostl" on which I have X started
>>>with "ssh-agent2 startx". So in a shell, the DISPLAY is set to ":0.0",
>>>I can start xlogo, nedit, ... but when I try to start ssh-add2 in graphic
>>>mode (ssh-add2 < /dev/null) I get:
>>
>
>>Try:
>
>
>
>>./configure --without-x11-security



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