x11 forwarding problem

Douglas E. Engert
Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:00:58 -0000

Works for me from 4.1p1 to 3.8p1.

The man pages for sshd talk about how to setup ~/.ssh/rc to call xauth
and pass in the proto and cookie depending on how X11UseLocalhost is set.

What does xauth show?

Is the .Xauthority file shared between machines?


Lewis Tsao wrote:

> I login from system using Openssh 4.0p1 or 4.1p1 to
> systems running Openssh before 3.9p1 or 3.7p1.
>
> It appears the X11 stuff are either blocked or not
> recognised. I get errors like
>
> "xterm Xt error: Can't open display: <host>:10.0" or
>
> "X11 connection rejected because of wrong
> authentication.
> X connection to localhost:10.0 broken....."
>
> depending on whether I use "localhost" or not.
>
> Connecting to systems running Openssh 4.0p1 or later
> appear to be OK.
>
>
>
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