Re: OpenSSH display error

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"SB" == Sergio Brandano <sb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>

Sergio,


SB> I get this message when using OpenSSH (DebianPPC pkg):

SB>   --> ssh -f alice xterm
SB>   sb@alice.dcs.qmw.ac.uk's password: 
SB>   <sb@alice> [~] 
SB>   --> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 

SB> The funny thing is that X11Forwarding is turned on in both
SB> /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh/ssh_config.

I can't tell what's wrong from this information -- have you tried
adding the ``-v'' flag to get verbose output?  It's pretty amazing
what you can find out that way.  (For example, a friend was having
problems connecting to one machine, and had no idea what was
happening.  With the verbose flag, ssh told us that his
authorized_keys file had the wrong permissions.)

   CMC

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