<!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:4A231F5C.7090605@eburg.com" type="cite">On 05/31/2009 11:53 AM, John wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> [john@LT-02 ~]$ ssh -v LT-01 -X </blockquote> ... <blockquote type="cite">debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. </blockquote> ... <blockquote type="cite">[john@LT-01 ~]$ ls -lZ $XAUTHORITY drwxrwxr-x. john john unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 bin </blockquote> ... It looks like XAUTHORITY isn't set, which means that you probably don't have "xauth" in your path (it's probably not installed). Install xorg-x11-xauth, and then log in again. On your next login, sshd should create the XAUTHORITY file. Having said that, if xauth is missing, you should see an error stating that in the output of "ssh -v", which you don't. That's very odd. I'm fairly certain that the problem is the missing XAUTHORITY variable, I'm just not sure why it's missing. If xauth is present, try creating a new user on the system, and see if you have the same problem when you log in to that account. </blockquote> xorg-x11-xauth was already installed. I created a new user and tried to login. Here is the output: [john@LT-02 ~]$ ssh -X tom@lt-01 tom@lt-01's password: /usr/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/tom/.Xauthority [tom@LT-01 ~]$ gedit (gedit:2969): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 [tom@LT-01 ~]$ </body> </html>