[ale] remote X problems.

[David Corbin]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:31, James CE Johnson wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> >When I attempt to launch an X application, I get the following:
> >
> >X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> >X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> Smells like an xauth problem. If you could see the X server's output it
> might say something useful.

Actually, it doesn't say anything useful.  But I can share some more 
information.  The problem is that I ssh to O as myself, and su to root.  If I 
don't su, or if I ssh AS root, it works.  Is there a solution that doesn't 
involve ssh-ing as root?  (I'm not very xauth familiar)

>
> >I can find no log message that tells me anything helpful.  Can someone
> > point me in the right direction?  Below shows my setup.  I am sitting at
> > machine T, logged into P via KDM.  I then use ssh to access machine O,
> > where I cannot launchan X application.
> >
> >T ----via KDM----  P  ----ssh -X----O
> >
> >Thanks for the help.
> >David
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