Re: Mac OSX -> linux x11Forwarding struggles, invalid name errors?

From: Richard E. Silverman (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 10/12/05 

Date: 12 Oct 2005 15:44:15 -0400

>>>>> "TH" == Todd H <comphelp@toddh.net> writes:

    TH> Greetings,

    TH> I suspect these "invalid name was supplied" errors may be related
    TH> (see -v output below).

No -- they are diagnostics from its attempting to use GSSAPI/Kerberos
user authentication. Here is some more info on that:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.ssh/browse_frm/thread/e0b5b4b0cd67172a/9ef11f0293b73304

Note from the output that the client is not even requesting X forwarding.
Is the local DISPLAY variable set? 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  res@qoxp.net

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