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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:46:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Randy Schultz <schulra@earlham.edu>
To:        'Devin Teske' <dteske@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: jails and X forwarding
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403212045410.28807@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <008e01cf453e$f31d0d10$d9572730$@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403211453110.68818@localhost> <008e01cf453e$f31d0d10$d9572730$@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, dteske@FreeBSD.org wrote:

-}
-}> I am trying to allow a jail to do X forwarding ala ssh -Y, but seem to be
-}missing
-}> something.  I have narrowed it down to something with the jail, having
-}> successfully done this with non-jails.  IOW, sshd_config has
-}"X11Forwarding
-}> yes" etc.  The system is fbsd 9.2-STABLE.  The jail is set up using
-}ezjail.  I have
-}> tweaked various jail sysctl settings in case there was something there I
-}was
-}> missing.  I disabled the firewall rules to removed potential interference
-}from
-}> that angle.  All to no avail.  I keep getting ye olde
-}> 
-}>     xclock
-}>     X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
-}>     Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
-}> 
-}> What am I missing?
-}> 
-}[Devin Teske] 
-}
-}Try installing xauth.

Ah, I had already done that:

Dude ? pkg_info|egrep xauth
xauth-1.0.8         X authority file utility


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