Good evening, all,
I'm running OpenSSH 3.9p1-7 from Fedora core 3. I just started
using ControlPath - very nice!
While I can successfully run X windows applications in the
ControlMaster window, I can't run those same applications in the any of
the ssh sessions that run inside the Master. For this experiment, I have
"ForwardX11Trusted yes" in the "Host *" section of ~/.ssh/config :
ssh root-zaphod -M -v
[snip]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
debug1: Requesting authentication agent forwarding.
Last login: Tue Jan 11 01:27:18 2005 from
68-169-201-54.sbtnvt.adelphia.net
[root@zaphod root]# xeyes &
[1] 5640
[root@zaphod root]# debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 4
win 65536 max 16384
debug1: client_request_x11: request from 127.0.0.1 52209
debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
debug1: confirm x11
debug1: channel 2: new [client-session]
and xeyes starts up just fine on my local machine. Now if I start
a second shell:
[wstearns@sparrow tmp]$ ssh -v root-zaphod
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/wstearns/.ssh/config
debug1: Applying options for root-zaphod
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 45: Deprecated option "FallBackToRsh"
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 46: Deprecated option "UseRsh"
Last login: Tue Jan 11 01:28:50 2005 from
68-169-201-54.sbtnvt.adelphia.net
[root@zaphod root]# echo $DISPLAY
[root@zaphod root]#
And since there's no DISPLAY set:
[root@zaphod root]# xclock &
[1] 6055
[root@zaphod root]# Error: Can't open display:
[1]+ Exit 1 xclock
[root@zaphod root]#
I honestly don't know if this is an issue with ControlPath, an
issue with Portable OpenSSH, or an issue with Redhat/Fedora's package.
If you're using OpenSSH 3.9, would you be willing to try running an X
application in both the Master and Slave windows?
If you haven't used ControlMaster before, you only need to make
two changes. Add this line to the appropriate stanza of ~/.ssh/config :
ControlPath /home/wstearns/.ssh/sockets/root-zaphod
and add the "-M" to the command line of the Master, leaving it off
for the slave.
As a side note, ControlPath also appears to be incompatible with
"-l username" and "username@" command line options, but I strongly suspect
this is intentional.
Cheers,
- Bill
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