Re: [TCLUG:14215] using OpenSSH

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

SSH uses xauth for authentication.  You'll need to be certain that xauth
is in your path as well as in the path SSH expects it to be.

Peter Lukas

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm trying to do some X forwarding over an OpenSSH channel. When I log in
> (regular password, not RSA) and try to start some X-based app. I get an
> error message that indicates that I'm using the wrong authentication
> method. I think I've read all of the SSH docs, but I've never heard of X
> forwarding being dependent on the authentication method that was used. Is
> this familiar to anyone?
> 
> -Tim
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