X forwarding on OpenServer

Greg Jewell gjewell at cnnxn.com
Wed Dec 11 05:44:57 EST 2002


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Rice [mailto:tim at multitalents.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:37 AM
>To: Greg Jewell
>Cc: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
>Subject: Re: X forwarding on OpenServer
>
>
>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
>
>For OpenServer you need to have X11UseLocalhost no in sshd_config.
>

Bingo.  Thank you!

>>
>> Has anybody else encountered this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg Jewell
>>
>>
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