Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:15:33 +0200
From:      Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca
Subject:   Re: X11 and ezjails
Message-ID:  <20170401091533.GA2495@esprimo.local>
In-Reply-To: <7f49f81e25d0eb05aad1af66df49c525.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
References:  <7f49f81e25d0eb05aad1af66df49c525.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:39:29PM -0400, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:

Dear James,

> FreeBSD-11.0
> 
> I would like to run gvim in an X11 window over ssh to a jailed
> instance created with ezjail.  I have set sshd_config in the jail to
> allow X11Forwarding and I am connecting with 'ssh -Y jail.domain.tld'
> 
> However, when I log into the jail and run gvim then I see this:
> 
> # gvim
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> E233: cannot open display
> Press ENTER or type command to continue
> 
> E852: The child process failed to start the GUI
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> 
> 
> I have run into this before and have attempted to apply all of the
> previous remedies but nothing seems to work.  Is there anything about
> jails themselves that would prevent X11 forwarding?
> 
> Has anyone accomplished what I am trying to do?  If so then how was it
> done?

Please have a look at
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/53362/
It works with ezjail as well.

Kind regards,
Christoph



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20170401091533.GA2495>