Re: xlib

[Christian Schoenebeck <christian.schoenebeck@epost.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 1. August 2002 20:05 schrieb Jianbo Wang:
> Hi,
>
> I installed woody with kernel of 2.2.20. i always got display
> problem. When I use ssh to a host (in Redhat), DISPLAY is automaticaly set
> and I can popup a Xwin. But I cannot do it in woody. When I su to root,
> nomatter how I set DISPLAY, use xhost, I cannot popup a Xwin, and got the
> following error:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>
> Any advice? Thanks!

I've never done that before, but AFAIK you have to activate X11 forwarding:

	X11Forwarding yes

in the config file(s) of sshd. And you need the 'magic cookie' 
($home/.Xauthority) from the xservers machine to be allowed to connect an 
xclient to the xserver.

Hope that helps.

Christian