On Monday 23 July 2018 17:00:04 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:37:48PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > As I keep repeating, x is TOTALLY not available to the common user. > > I need to set that up as an auto reply I guess. All the good > > editors, and I'm fond of geany, but neither geany, kate nor kwrite > > are available, they need x and bailout when they're are denied its > > use, so I'm stuck with nano, and its half a screen vertical jump for > > a scroll drives me plumb out of my skull, spending 95% of my time > > looking for the damned curser. No way in hell you can write good > > code with that distraction. > > > > I'm running out of patience, everyone is reading what they *think* I > > wrote, then answering that question I didn't ask. That is not > > helpfull and just confuses the next person that replies to what > > ought to be a new thread, its that far from the actual subject. > > (Went back and reread the thread...) > > When you said you had isses with ssh -Y not allow X connections... > > Check that /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the rock64 has these settings: > > X11Forwarding yes > X11UseLocalhost no > > And that the package 'xauth' is installed. > > Either of those missing will prevent ssh from forwarding X > connections. > Do I have to reboot it (the rock64) after makeing everything as above? Logging out, and back in does not shut the error message off.
gene@coyote:~$ ssh -Y rock64@rock64 rock64@rock64's password: X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 > What the name of user 1000 is has nothing to do with it (Only really > NFS has issues with uid's not matching between machines and there are > ways to deal with that too). Well, something is makeing sure I can't do anything from any keyboard but the machines own keyboard and monitor. Thanks Lennart, you actually tried to answer my question, and I appreciate it. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
