X11 session over ssh, problem
The problem is that I ssh to a server, and then try to run a program that
requires an X display. I want it to use the X server on my workstation. It
doesn't. It just does nothing.
Details: Three machines on my LAN are relevant. Call the one I'm sitting at
O, and the others A and B.
O runs Sarge, A runs Etch, and B runs woody.
From O, I can successfully use X over ssh on A; I do this on O:
xterm -e ssh A &
then on A I can run stuff like xpdf and it opens a window on O, as expected.
But if I do the same to B (i.e. xterm -e ssh B &), then try to run a program
like xpdf which uses X, it doesn't work. xpdf just sits in the background,
doing nothing, until some timeout occurs, then emits the error message:
"Cannot connect to X server localhost:10.0". The problem is not specific to
xpdf, it's the same with any X program (but some emit additional
error-message text).
Here's the contents of /etc/ssh/sshd_config on B, excluding comments:
Port 22
ListenAddress 192.168.1.9
Protocol 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt no
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
ServerKeyBits 768
SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO
LoginGraceTime 600
PermitRootLogin no
StrictModes yes
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
RhostsAuthentication no
IgnoreRhosts yes
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
HostbasedAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no
PasswordAuthentication yes
X11Forwarding yes
AllowTcpForwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
PrintMotd no
KeepAlive yes
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/sftp-server
and here's the contents of ssh_config on B (comments stripped):
Host *
ForwardX11 yes
The contents of files on O are presumably correct, since everything works
when I do
xterm -e ssh A &
The DISPLAY environment variable seems to be set correctly on B:
echo $DISPLAY
gives
localhost:10.0
which is correct for redirecting an X session back to my workstation, it has
applied the X11DisplayOffset from the config file correctly.
The /etc/hosts file on B starts with:
127.0.0.1 localhost
xauth is installed on B, and if I delete the .Xauthority file, it gets
re-created when I ssh to B (as it should).
The files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty except for comments
on all these machines.
The file ~/.ssh/config on B contains one line:
ForwardX11 yes
(the file does not exist on A, by the way).
I can't think of anything else to check. Ideas, anyone?
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