Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince <bwince@redback.com> wrote:

>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu]
>   Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM
>   To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>   Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble
>  
>   Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble.
>  
>   The client is allan.  The server is ajglap.
>  
>  >From the client (gnome-terminal) I can run ssh as follows
>  
>       gottlieb@allan ~ $ ssh ajglap
>       Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:50:02 EDT 2008 from allan on ssh
>       Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:54:33 2008 from allan
>       xhost:  unable to open display ""
>       gottlieb@ajglap ~ $
>  
>   adding a -Y gives the same output
>  
>   But I can't run other server programs from the client.  The following
>   used to start emacs on the server displaying a new X11 window on the
>   client.
>  
>       gottlieb@allan ~ $ ssh -Y ajglap emacs
>       emacs: standard input is not a tty
>       gottlieb@allan ~ $
>  
>   removing the -Y gives the same output
>  
>   I went to the server and created ~/.ssh/config with contents
>  
>       ForwardX11Trusted yes
>  
>   But this didn't help (I also tried the risky ForwardX11).
>  
>   I am planning to downgrade, but wanted to ask here first if I have just
>   misconfigured something (bugs.gentoo.org didn't seem to have anything
>   relevant).
>  
>   thanks,
>   allan
>
> Is "X11Forwarding yes" set in the sshd_config on ajglap?

It is now!

thanks,
allan