X forwarding on OpenServer

[Ben Lindstrom]

You may want to consider uncommenteding this and setting it to 'no' in
your sshd_config.

#X11UseLocalhost yes


On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Greg Jewell wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been having issues getting X forwarding to work on OpenServer for OpenSSH versions 3.4p1 and 3.5p1.  I have compiled OpenSSH on Redhat Linux 8.0, Solaris 8, and OpenServer 5.0.6, but the OpenServer box is the only one that exhibits the problem.  I've detailed everything below.
>
> I am using PuTTY for my ssh client under Windows.  If I connect to the Linux or Solaris boxes, X forwarding works as it should.  When I connect to to the OpenServer boxes, I receive the following error:
> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Authentication failed at PuTTY X11 proxy
> Error: Can't open display localhost:10.0
>
> I checked PuTTY's website, and it states that this error means there is a problem on the server side.
>
> If I attempt to connect to the OpenServer box from another UNIX (Linux, Solaris, or OpenServer) box, I get the following error when I attempt to launch an X application:
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> Please note that I am not using "su" at any point in time.  I have seen several messages where similar problems occur when people use this.
>
> Has anybody else encountered this?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Jewell
>
>
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