[NTLUG:Discuss] Remote X stopped working.

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Fri Mar 25 08:34:42 CST 2005


Lance Simmons wrote:
> * Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> [050325 00:18]:
> 
>>On several machines both at home and at work, since being upgraded to
>>SuSE 9.1 or 9.2, the following procedure no longer works:
>>
>>  % xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
>>  % ssh myname at machineB
> 
> 
> Maybe /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the one machine or /etc/ssh/sshd_config on
> the other doesn't allow X11Forwarding?  (Not sure the file names are the
> same for SuSE.)  That sometimes happens to me in Debian after I've done
> a fresh install on one of the machines, or allowed apt to replace the
> current ssh config files (which have the correct but less secure option)
> with the default config files (which have the incorrect but more secure
> option).

Yep - that's it.

Many thanks!

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