[PLUG] Problems using X with ssh from one particular site.
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Tue Jul 1 23:05:03 UTC 2003
Some implementations of ssh have x forwarding turned off. Make sure that
you are starting ssh with the proper command line options to override this
behaviour.
On 1 Jul 2003, Zot O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:15, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, David Mandel wrote:
> > > I COULDN'T RUN X APPLICATIONS. Everytime I tryed to start one, I got a
> > > message about not being able to access the X server. Anyone know why
> > > I'm having this problem? The display variable looks reasonable.
> >
> > This is simple and obvious, but sometimes unstated assumptions are the
> > root cause.
> >
> > xhost +?
> >
> > J.
>
> Ahhhhh! This is very insecure!
>
> X over ssh uses xauth/magic cookies and a fake display (tunneled).
>
> Also since it works from some machines and not others, it is likely
> DNS/IP, or a setting on passwords/keys.
>
>
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