ssh -X shop problem...

[Lonni J Friedman]

Try the -Y switch instead of -X.  Also make sure that you didn't
disable X11Forwarding in sshd_config.

On 11/26/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Tonight I thought I'd play with emc2 a bit, but since updateing this
> machine to FC6, somethings gone fubar in the X11 forwarding.  Here is
> whats been executed to get to the failure:
>
> ---------
> [root at coyote amanda]# xhost +192.168.71.4
> 192.168.71.4 being added to access control list
> [root at coyote amanda]# su gene
> [gene at coyote amanda]$ ssh -X shop
> gene at shop's password:
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> Linux shop 2.6.15-magma #1 Fri Jun 9 20:51:19 EEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> Welcome to the Shop @ the Coyote's Den
>
> Last login: Sun Nov 26 22:52:45 2006 from coyote.coyote.den
> gene at shop:~$ cd emc2.head/
> gene at shop:~/emc2.head$ scripts/emc
> EMC2 - pre-2.1 CVS HEAD
> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to
> display "localhost:10.0"
> ------------
>
> Obviously I can't do this xhost thingy as a common user:
> ----------
> [gene at coyote amanda]$ xhost +192.168.71.4
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> xhost:  unable to open display ":0"
> -----------
> X was started by root, as usual.
>
> Where did I mess up?  Where is this access control list being maintained
> and is it editable by mortals?  Or where is this magic cookie key?, and
> how do I refresh it to valid status?
>
> This exact procedure worked just fine when I was running FC2 (with
> xorg-6.8.1-901 hand built on this box.)


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