Track down problem with access to display 0.0
Nalin Dahyabhai
nalin at redhat.com
Tue Jul 27 17:02:25 UTC 2004
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:45:40AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Maybe this other problem regarding ssh I've been noticing is related.
> In past releases I've been able to put the appropriate pub id's in an
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file and start the ssh-agent while starting X.
How were you doing this?
> Then all my xterms have ssh-agent running.
How are you verifying that?
> In the past that meant when
> I called `xterm -e ssh root at localhost' it just started an root xterm
> with no login. The ssh-agent handled it.
>
> I've exchanged the pub id's between $user and root
> .ssh/authorized_keys files. and I know it is done right because it works
> to remote hosts where I've put the same authorized_keys file.
> However, when I call ssh root at localhost I'm still queried for password.
Hmm. Works from here. Does running ssh with the -v flag give any
indication why pubkey authentication fails? When you're prompted for a
password, is ssh requesting your login password or the passphrase to
your private key?
Nalin
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