[clug] SSH + X11 forwarding.

Russell Weatherburn russell at oxyoss.net
Fri May 22 05:36:00 MDT 2015


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On 20/05/2015 9:51 AM, Andrew Janke wrote:
> On 19 May 2015 at 14:04, David Austin <david at d-austin.net> wrote:
>> Is your  .Xauthority good (on the source machine)?
>> Can you do:
>> xauth list
>> and
>> xauth info
>>
>> IIRC - I had the same problem a while ago when my .Xauthority became
>> owned by root.
>
> Seems OK. Has entries for the server I'm SSH'ing to
>
> $xauth list
> <server>/unix:11  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  <blah>
> ...
>
> $ xauth info
> Authority file:      ~/.Xauthority
> File new:             no
> File locked:          no
> Number of entries:    5
> Changes honored:      yes
> Changes made:         no
> Current input:        (argv):1
>
> I had already got suss of this and removed the file so should be OK.
> Permissions are good too. (600)
>
>
> a
One thing that I have found as an issue is that if you have IPv6
disabled one the remote server then if you don't have the following in
your /etc/ssh/sshd.conf file it simply won't work:
AddressFamily inet
 
See http://ask.xmodulo.com/fix-broken-x11-forwarding-ssh.html for tips. :)

HTH,

Russell.

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Russell Weatherburn

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