ssh -X shop problem...
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Nov 27 04:08:05 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 23:02 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Tonight I thought I'd play with emc2 a bit, but since updateing this
> machine to FC6, somethings gone fubar in the X11 forwarding. Here is
> whats been executed to get to the failure:
>
> ---------
> [root at coyote amanda]# xhost +192.168.71.4
> 192.168.71.4 being added to access control list
> [root at coyote amanda]# su gene
> [gene at coyote amanda]$ ssh -X shop
> gene at shop's password:
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> Linux shop 2.6.15-magma #1 Fri Jun 9 20:51:19 EEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> Welcome to the Shop @ the Coyote's Den
>
> Last login: Sun Nov 26 22:52:45 2006 from coyote.coyote.den
> gene at shop:~$ cd emc2.head/
> gene at shop:~/emc2.head$ scripts/emc
> EMC2 - pre-2.1 CVS HEAD
> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to
> display "localhost:10.0"
> ------------
>
> Obviously I can't do this xhost thingy as a common user:
> ----------
> [gene at coyote amanda]$ xhost +192.168.71.4
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> xhost: unable to open display ":0"
> -----------
> X was started by root, as usual.
>
> Where did I mess up? Where is this access control list being maintained
> and is it editable by mortals? Or where is this magic cookie key?, and
> how do I refresh it to valid status?
>
> This exact procedure worked just fine when I was running FC2 (with
> xorg-6.8.1-901 hand built on this box.)
----
remote X-windows doesn't work when you do an 'su' unless before you do
that, you have to authorize the local user to use x which just
complicates things.
don't do an su and you'll be able to use remote x-windows
better yet...freenx rocks
Craig
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