[Grml] X11 forwarding

moss at mythic-beasts.com moss at mythic-beasts.com
Wed Jan 28 13:02:15 CET 2009


Uli

I found the following command to merge the ~/.Xauthority files at
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Econsulta/greatest-hits/xterm.html but
it has not cured the problem

moss at laptop$ xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh moss at 192.168.1.4 xauth merge -

It executed OK. Maybe I'll reinstall ssh on the PII

Regards
Moss

On 27/01/2009, Ulrich Dangel <schula at grml.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 20:10:00 moss at mythic-beasts.com wrote:
>
>> Thank you. I tried this just now but stil the $DISPLAY is not set on PII.
>
> Do you have xauth installed on the server? Its needed for correct
> X11Forwarding.
> Can you please connect via ssh -vX and provide the output?
>
> Uli
>
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