[OmniOS-discuss] X11 application support

[Tim Rice]

On Fri, 24 May 2013, Marion Hakanson wrote:

> tim at multitalents.net said:
> > sshd will tunnel X11 fine. sshd does not link to any X11 libs. 
> 
> Thanks for the note, Tim.
> 
> A bit of "truss" work makes it look like sshd stat()'s for the presence
> of /usr/X11/bin/xauth, and then uses that to setup the X11 authentication
> passed through from the remote system.  So my current hypothesis is that
> once I've got an xauth binary somewhere, a symlink to it from /usr/X11/bin/
> will be in order.

Yes it will need xauth. But I expect you'll have that when you have all
the X11 bits you'll need for your software.

The point I was attempting to make is, no need to rebuild sshd.

> Regards,
> 
> Marion

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Tim Rice				Multitalents
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