[CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

Fri Oct 28 08:10:05 UTC 2011
Steve Brooks <steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote:
>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I have a working configuration with CentOS 6. Can you try to set next
>>  lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart SSH server please?
>>
>>  #X11Forwarding no
>>  X11Forwarding yes
>>  #X11DisplayOffset 10
>>  X11UseLocalhost yes
>> 
>>
>>  In fact I do not have xorg-x11-auth rpm installed:
>>
>>  [root at Carmen ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i xorg-x11-auth
>>  [root at Carmen ~]#
>>
>>  and it works...
>
> He meant xorg-x11-xauth and I'm 99% certain you *need* that installed on the
> target machine for ssh forwarding to work.

I have a few "sl6.1" worstations that do not have "xorg-x11-xauth" 
installed and it does *not* seem to appear in the repos. Yet 
X11-Forwarding works fine.

Steve