<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Gordon Messmer wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4A22CFA0.3000604@eburg.com" type="cite">On 05/31/2009 10:53 AM, John Foisy wrote: <blockquote type="cite">I've already tried the -Y option with no results. Here is the content of the pertinent section of sshd_config: </blockquote> That's odd. I have two machines running F11 with all of the updates, and X11 forwarding between them works just fine with both -X and -Y. >From one of the F11 hosts, log in to the other with: ssh -v <f11host> -X Once you're logged in, check the X cookie file: ls -lZ $XAUTHORITY Finally, try a simple X11 application: gedit If it doesn't work, send the output of all of the commands. </blockquote> Hi Gordon, I tried your suggestion and it did'nt work. Here is the output: [john@LT-02 ~]$ ssh -v LT-01 -X OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to LT-01 [192.168.1.101] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/john/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/john/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity file /home/john/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.2 debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.2 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host 'lt-01' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/john/.ssh/known_hosts:7 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information No credentials cache found debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information No credentials cache found debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: /home/john/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 277 debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:no-more-sessions@openssh.com">no-more-sessions@openssh.com</a> debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8 Last login: Sun May 31 14:45:58 2009 from lt-02.localdomain [john@LT-01 ~]$ ls -lZ $XAUTHORITY drwxrwxr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bin drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Desktop drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Documents drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Download drwxrwxr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 DT-01 drwxrwxr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 LT-02 drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Music drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Pictures drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Public -rw-rw-r--. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 smolt-LT-01 -rw-rw-r--. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 smolt-LT-01~ drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Templates drwxr-xr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Videos [john@LT-01 ~]$ gedit (gedit:2402): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:11.0 [john@LT-01 ~]$ </body> </html>