debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Requesting authentication agent forwarding. debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. both machines give this... $ emerge -pv xauth These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-apps/xauth-0.99.0 0 kB $ which xauth /usr/bin/xauth