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• Data and Technology

  Posted on June 3rd, 2008

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  patch, socfs, solaris, ssh, sshd, sun, X, X11, X11 forwarding

  X11 Forwarding Broken on Solaris

  

  If you’re running Solaris 8 or 9 and an upgrade results in broken SSH X11 forwarding, the problem may be Sun’s socfs bug. The symptom will be SSH’s failure to set the $DISPLAY variable and an error in your system log looking something like this:

  Jun 3 09:40:24 servername sshd[26432]: [ID 800057 auth.error] error: Failed [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on July 16th, 2007

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  blank screen, display, export, Java, Java Swing, mac, ssh, ssh forwarding, SSH X11 forwarding, sshd_config, ssh_config, Swing, tunnel, unix, X11, X11 forwarding

  Blank Window When SSH Forwarding X11 Sessions

  There are a number of applications running on our servers that have GUI’s that I need to display on the Mac in my office. While the traditional method of exporting the server-side display to my desktop works, it is inherently insecure because the entire session, including any passwords that may be sent are all transmitted [...]

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