From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 7: 1:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.stelesys.com [208.177.187.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC2B37B422 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 07:01:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3JE1gX67415; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:01:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:01:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Freeze X-X-Sender: To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: , "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD as an X workstation - Not sure how to word question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Apr 2001, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Jim Freeze writes: > > > jfreeze@eeyore1 ('tty') ~ 12 -> env | grep -i auth > > jfreeze@eeyore1 ('tty') ~ 13 -> > > Then it looks like ssh is not setting your XAUTHORITY... You need to > make sure that ssh on the target machine is configured to forward > X11... > > Check /etc/ssh/sshd_config for 2 lines as follows : > X11Forwarding yes > X11DisplayOffset 10 I uncommented the following two lines: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes The X11DisplayOffset 10 line did not exist. After supplying my password, I get: debug: Requesting pty. debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug: Requesting shell. debug: Entering interactive session. ..[snip login details].. Then there is a pause (..this is new..) And I get: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/jfreeze/.Xauthority > > They need to be uncommented. > > Also, do ssh -v -X targetmachine > and look for a line like > debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. > as well as anything similar to that . ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- No comment at this time. http://www.freeze.org ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message