openssh unix dev - Jul 2002 - [Bug 338] New: X11 forwarding no longer works after upgrading from 2.9.9p2 to 3.4p1

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338

           Summary: X11 forwarding no longer works after upgrading from
                    2.9.9p2 to 3.4p1
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Platform: Sparc
               URL: ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/ssh/ssh-X11-bug.tgz
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ssh
        AssignedTo: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: jrj at purdue.edu


X11 forwarding no longer works after upgrading from 2.9.9p2 to 3.4p1.
When a client tries to connect it reports:

  Xlib: connection to "localhost:20.0" refused by server
  Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
  Error: Can't open display: localhost:20.0

Environment is Solaris 2.6 on both sides (ssh and sshd).

This worked just fine before the upgrade (with 2.9.9p2 on both sides).
I have further debugged it to being related to the 3.4p1 client side.
If I connect to either a 2.9.9p2 or 3.4p1 server with a 2.9.9p2 client,
I can start an X11 client.  If I connect to either server with a 3.4p1
client, it fails.

I tried both settings for X11UseLocalhost and can see the change to the
DISPLAY environment variable (so I know the X11UseLocalhost change was
taking place), but it made no difference to the problem.

I do not normally have a $HOME/.ssh/rc file.  I tried using the example
in the sshd man page, but that also had no effect.

I do not have a $HOME/.ssh/environment or /etc/ssh/sshrc file.

The debugging files, and build output, indicate xauth was found and is
being run.

As far as I recall, I only made two other changes at the time 3.4p1
was installed.  One was to put "Protocol 2" in sshd_config to disable
protocol version 1.  The other was to comment out some "UseRSH" lines
in
my own $HOME/.ssh/config file since that no longer appears to be supported
(which is very unfortunate -- but that's a different matter).

The following file:

  ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/ssh/ssh-X11-bug.tgz

contains copies of my config files, the build environment output, and
log files from my tests.

The test involved two machines.  Gandalf is a X11 workstation, i.e. it
has the display.  Fortress is another Solaris machine where I wanted to
start an client (xclock) and have it show up on the gandalf display.  So
the test, from gandalf, was:

  ssh fortress /usr/openwin/bin/xclock

Files named "client.*" are from the ssh side (gandalf).  Files named
"server.*" are from the sshd side (fortress).  Files named
"*ssh-2*"
are using the 2.9.9p2 ssh, while those named "*ssh-3*" are using
3.4p1.
Files named "*sshd-2*" are using the 2.9.9p2 sshd, while those named
"*sshd-3*" are using 3.4p1.  All files are with "-v -v -v"
and "-d -d -d".

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, jrj at purdue.edu



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