Why is X11 Forwarding not working on my system when my ssh daemon is correctly configured with 'X11Forwarding yes' ?
Issue
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Why is X11 Forwarding not working when ssh daemon is correctly configured with '
X11Forwarding yes
' ? -
Why are the following error messages seen in the verbose ssh client output
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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