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Date:      Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:14:14 -0800
From:      Caleb Walker <cwalker@cwalk.org>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems using ssh while running in an X console
Message-ID:  <200111172224.fAHMO2665432@cwalk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011116231400.K50971@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <200111170425.fAH4PI660989@cwalk.org> <20011116231400.K50971@blossom.cjclark.org>

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On Friday 16 November 2001 11:14 pm, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:15:30PM -0800, Caleb Walker wrote:
> > I do not startx and I am able to connect to my server via ssh but as soon
> > as I get into KDE and open a console I get this far and that is it:
> >
> > [cwalker@butthead cwalker]$ ssh -l root <server name>
> > Passphrase for key "/home/cwalker/.ssh2/butthead" with comment "1024-bit
> > dsa, root@<server name>, Mon Jun 04 2001 20:54:27 -0700":
> > Authentication successful.
> >
> > And then that is it.  I get console messages from the server that I am
> > connected to but I cannot issue commands or access a shell.  Any thoughts
> > would be appreciated.  It is probably something easy but it is evading
> > me.
>
> What happens if you try,
>
>   $ ssh -x <server>

That was it I would have never thought...  That is good though! Thanks

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