* Anne Carasik (gator@cacr.caltech.edu) [020701 16:34]: > Hi Vineet, > > It doesn't matter--it's still does not work no matter what I do > to my X server. > > Anyway, I turned off xhost and X11 listening a while ago. Right. My point was that this is a way /around/ ssh forwarding. It won't make it any easier to get ssh forwarding working, and can only confuse the issue. Glad you've moved on from it. So anyway, here's a basic rundown of things to double-check: the server has "X11Forwarding yes" in its config (and that config has been loaded, i.e. the server has been restarted since the change). the client has X11Forwarding yes in its config, in the right place (i.e. after where it says "Host *", and no later declarations override and disable it.) you're not connecting with a key which is restricted with a no-X11-forwarding directive in the options section of the authorized_keys. DISPLAY is set on the client, and displaying of local X apps works before ever attempting a connect to the remote server. This means that the local xauth cookie is valid and authorized to connect to the local X server. xauth is found at /usr/bin/X11/xauth, or the correct location is specified correctly with an XAuthLocation directive in the remote sshd's sshd_config, and the connecting user has correct (+rx) permissions on it. That's all I can come up with off the top of my head right now. I know you did say that you've done some of the things mentioned above, but if it's still failing, it's a good idea to double-check that all of those above conditions are met. Sometimes when changing lots of things around in desperation, we forget to change something back. I'm about to review the thread one more time to see if you've posted any "ssh -v" or "sshd -d" outputs that may provide additional insight. If it continues to fail, those may be useful for us to diagnose the problem. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -E.W. Dijkstra
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