On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 06:52:11PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from > Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on > my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, > I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to > connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian > that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's > ISP service, or what? > > Any clues as to how I can connect? > > PS. I've heard people refer to rlogin and ssh and have kindda gotten the > impression that these are alternative means of "telnetting" in; maybe this > relates to my problem?
You need to tell your local X server that the remote X client is authorised to connect. The simplest way is "xhost +servername", but that's pretty insecure. The better way is to use xauth to export your X "magic cookie" to a file, and then import it on to the host at the other end. ssh can do some trickery and make your X connection go through the secure connection. This means (a) your session is encrypted, and (b) no mucking around with xauth because it does it for you. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
