Folks,
I am having a minor problem on a new AIX install. I have AIX installed in and LPAR on a p550 and everything works fine with the exception of users who log in with ssh.
It seems that when a user has X11 forwarding enabled in their ssh client and they connect to the server, logins hang. A CTRL+C will take the user to the shell prompt and if they delete the .Xauthority file, the next login works with no problem.
I'm using OpenSSH_3.8.1p1. AIX 5.3.
Has anyone seen this before or have any ideas how to fix this.
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Chris
What's the file permissions on the authority file? We saw a similar problem which ended up being an odd default umask setting resulting in an authority file that couldn't be written too.
Cheers,
Keith
I have been running a similar configuration (same version of AIX, OpenSSL) for about 10 months without any problems. However, when the AIX patches IY66513 and IY70159 were applied, I started having this same issue.
Have you found any resolution to this?
Our problem was traced to an error introduced in ML03.
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*USERS AFFECTED: *
- All users with the following filesets at these levels *
- X11.apps.config 5.3.0.30
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*PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: *
- When the X11.apps.config 5.3.0.30 fileset is
- installed, the xauth command can hang in certain
- conditions. This typically can happen when the user
- is using an ssh/openssh session to tunnel X-Windows.
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*RECOMMENDATION: *
- Apply apar IY76807
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