Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:53:18 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deny of x sessions Message-ID: <455CC1AE.8000603@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061116191618.GA36885@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> References: <20061116191618.GA36885@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net>
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Alain G. Fabry wrote: > Hey, > > I've just installed KDE 4.5.3 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. > > I'm having problem getting an x-window from another PC when I'm connected to that PC via telnet (with ssh -X .... everything works fine) > > When I telnet to the other machine and export/setenv my DISPLAY environment towards the display I'm telnetting from, I get the following error. > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 10.0.0.250:0.0 > > I've already tried to change the kdmrc by removing the -nolisten tcp or commenting out > > ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp > > but this does not seem to work either....when I reboot, it even undoes all the changes I've made to the file (as root) > > Anybody can give me some advise on what I need to do to accept incoming x11 requests. > > x11 packets are received (seen by a tcpdump) but it just does not want to work. > > Just for you info, I did not forget the xhost + > > Thanks in advance. Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. ssh -X was deprecated some time ago due to security concerns I believe over trusted hosts and X11 forwarding (Google that particular flag because there are a lot of discussion items out there about this). -Garrett
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