ssh and X

[Derek Atkins]

You need to copy your .Xauthority file.  This file is created at every
login and sshd uses that to authorize X connections.  My routine is:

ssh accesshost
...
accesshost% rcp .Xauthority remotehost:
accesshost% echo $DISPLAY
accesshost:10.0
accesshost% rlogin remotehost
...
remotehost% setenv DISPLAY accesshost:10.0
remotehost%

-derek

Derek Martin <dmartin at ne.arris-i.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Anyone have any experience forwarding X sessions through ssh?  I'm logging
> into one "access point" from which I have no trouble running X clients and
> having them show up on my display (even through my Linux IP masquerading
> firewall/proxy!  Very cool), but if I then telnet from that access point
> to another machine on the "inside" network, and set my DISPLAY to what
> sshd sets it to, I get the message:
> 
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> X connection to saxophone:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> I'll admit I haven't spent a huge amount of time reading the X-related
> stuff in the manpages, but I thought someone might know what I'm doing
> wrong (or not doing at all) off the top of their head.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"    "Who watches the watchmen?" 
> -Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 
> 
> Derek D. Martin      |  Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
> Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
> derekm at mediaone.net  |  dmartin at ne.arris-i.com
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