[clug] SSH + X11 forwarding.

[Bob Edwards]

On 19/05/15 14:04, Andrew Janke wrote:
> PS: what's rather annoying about all this is that it works fine from
> my Mac to the same server but not from my Ubuntu install.
>
> So it's (presumably) a client thing.

FWIW, it works fine for me (Trusty -> Trusty). Not aware that I am doing
anything special, just "X11Forwarding yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on
the (SSH) server. I assume you restarted the SSH server after changing
this setting?

cheers,

Bob Edwards.

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> On 19 May 2015 at 14:00, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was crossing my fingers that this one was right, It's sounds simple
>> enough to be true.  But nope.
>>
>>     $ df -h /tmp
>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/md126      551G  209M  522G   1% /tmp
>>
>> Plenty of space on the client too.
>>
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>>
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>> On 19 May 2015 at 12:26, Brett Worth <brett at worth.id.au> wrote:
>>> What about "df - h /tmp"?
>>>
>>> Brett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 19 May 2015 11:48 AM Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 19 May 2015 at 11:30, jm <jeffm at ghostgun.com> wrote:
>>>>> This keeps happening to me. I keep forgetting you have to install xauth
>>>>> separately.
>>>>
>>>> Hrm,
>>>>
>>>> $ sudo apt-get install xauth
>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>> xauth is already the newest version.
>>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>>>
>>>> Is there something else I'm missing? (this is on both host and client).
>>>>
>>>>> Also try running "ssh -v" as it can sometimes give you a clue to where
>>>>> your
>>>>> stuck if it's not obvious.
>>>>>
>>>>> There's also the "-Y" option with ssh for X. Not sure of the difference
>>>>> between that and "-X".
>>>>
>>>> The man page says -Y == trusted connections. Apparently either should
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> ta
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> a
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