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Re: lost ability to remote run sudo apps



On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:54:46 -0500, Rodney D. Myers wrote:

> sudo synaptic
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> 
> (synaptic:19563): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0

Did you turn on X11 forwarding explicitly?

man ssh:

 -X   Enables X11 forwarding.  This can also be specified on a per-host
      basis in a configuration file.

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