Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 01:32:50 -0700 From: Pat Lashley <patl@volant.org> To: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM, X11, and su as a normal user? (fwd) Message-ID: <779232704.1062837170@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <200309060731.h867VHlS063051@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <200309060731.h867VHlS063051@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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--On Saturday, September 06, 2003 00:31:17 -0700 "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > I don't quite understand your suggestion. > > I login as user kargl. I fire up X11 > as user kargl with startx. I use su in a > xterm to connect to my alter ego (su sgk). > Now, as user sgk I want to use a X11 client > such as nedit. AFAICT, it can't be done. > > If as user kargl, I do "ssh -X sgk@troutmask" > to login into the sgk account, I still can > not use a X11 client. Hmm. That should work fine. I do it all the time. Check the log messages to see if the SSH daemon had any non-fatal complaints. The default config for SSHd used to disable X11 forwarding. Look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config for a line which sets X11Forwarding. Make sure it is set to 'yes'. (If the line is commented out, the value listed should be the default. You might want to un-comment it and set it to 'yes' just to be sure.) After changing sshd_config you will need to send a HUP signal to the running sshd to get it to re-load its config file. (kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`) Oh, wait, one more thing - the shell's rc scripts for user sgk must -NOT- modify the DISPLAY environment variable - it will be set properly by ssh. -Pat
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