Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:32:54 -0800 From: Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> To: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box Message-ID: <20061216233254.GF4409@rescomp.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <200612161350.12657.lane@joeandlane.com> References: <200612161224.14708.lane@joeandlane.com> <cb5206420612161034x6dc55f35v83be24eb0a866062@mail.gmail.com> <200612161350.12657.lane@joeandlane.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > I've used this "ssh -X" that you mention. This works fine for "userland" > programs, but in order to troubleshoot my particular issue I'd need to be > logged in as root. When I try to "su" remotely to run the command I get: > > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I think what's going on is that X puts some authentication information in your home directory: ~/.Xauthority. You might try: $ su -m That will preserve your environment (including $HOME). Now when X goes looking for the ~/.Xauthority, it will find the one sshd set up in your user home directory. > > I might try logging in locally as root and see what happens .... > > But in the long run I think that if I could understand how to grant myself an > actual X session on the remote box then I could figure out how to do this and > potentially other stuff. > > Thanks for any information you might share. > > lane > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Chris Cowart Network and Infrastructure Systems Administrator RSSP-IT, UC Berkeley "May all your pushes be popped" [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFhIImV3SOqjnqPh0RAtXqAJ4z1xmrEUfPOXfHXkDXroXAJrbj5wCgxHDy HOnb4eqnaxRuvFzSE5DcG2M= =tn99 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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