Jacob, thanks for your detailed answer - it works now.
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 05:12, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > When you ssh with X11 forwarding, and the remote system at least has > xbase-clients installed (the local would have a full X11 system) there > should not be a need to use xhost. I haven't had to use the xhost > command since I started using ssh. > The X11 session data should be carried across the ssh tunnel instead of > going unencrypted outside of the ssh tunnel between the two systems. If > your $DISPLAY environment variable for your xterminal ssh session to > rock is set to black:display[.screen] (ie black:10.0), then you would > have to type "xhost +" or "xhost +rock" on black to get your X11 apps to > appear on rock and the data is not being forwarded over ssh. > Now that you've made the changes Collin suggested, when you ssh -X from > black to rock, "echo $DISPLAY" should return localhost:display[.screen] > (ie localhost:10.0) and not black:display[.screen]. It should > automatically get set to localhost:display[.screen] as you connect. If > it isn't being set to localhost:display[.screen] and you connected with > "ssh -X rock" then something else is wrong. Maybe you haven't restarted > the ssh daemon on black since you set "ForwardX11 yes" in the > sshd_config file? <restarted sshd> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde$ xhost - access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde$ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: [ abbreviated ... banner / last login ] rock:~# echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 rock:~# xterm < works fine.... I feel much more save now ;-)> I guess you were right about restarting the sshd ... Again, thanks for the help to anyone participating. > P.s. The suggested format for posting on this list is to post your > response at the bottom. Ok, will obey. Cheers, Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
