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ssh X11 forwarding, xauth problem?

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ccook123

IS-IT--Management
May 1, 2009
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US
I'm having trouble getting X11 forwarding to work and with my display not getting set whenever I sign on to my AIX 5.3 machine via ssh, any suggestions?

my sshd_config has X11 Forwarding enabled, and I can get my display on my local machine by manually setting the display
DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:10.0
export DISPLAY
xclock

this will pop xclock right up in an xming window.



# strings $(which sshd)|grep xauth
No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
maxauthtries
xauthlocation
/usr/bin/X11/xauth

# which xauth
/usr/bin/X11/xauth

# echo $DISPLAY

#

it appears to be looking in the correct location for xauth but claims No xauth program? Any suggestions?
 
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