Re: Allowing X11 forwarding for root with virt-manager

2013-02-15 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/14/2013 11:33 AM, Alex issued this missive: Hi all, I have an fc18 install and it seems that X11 forwarding over ssh has changed. I used to be able to just "ssh -Y root@remotehost" and be allowed to run programs to my display. However, now it seems this is no longer allowed: $ ssh -X root

Re: Allowing X11 forwarding for root with virt-manager

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:33:54 -0500 Alex wrote: > $ ssh -X root@mytest > X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 I saw that on an opensuse VM the other day, and the google results I eventually dug up claimed it was an ssh bug and I should change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to work around it by setting

Re: Allowing X11 forwarding for root with virt-manager

2013-02-14 Thread Alex
Hi all, > I have an fc18 install and it seems that X11 forwarding over ssh has > changed. I used to be able to just "ssh -Y root@remotehost" and be > allowed to run programs to my display. However, now it seems this is > no longer allowed: > > $ ssh -X root@mytest > X11 forwarding request failed o

Allowing X11 forwarding for root with virt-manager

2013-02-14 Thread Alex
Hi all, I have an fc18 install and it seems that X11 forwarding over ssh has changed. I used to be able to just "ssh -Y root@remotehost" and be allowed to run programs to my display. However, now it seems this is no longer allowed: $ ssh -X root@mytest X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0