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One bug worth noting, Mandrake 7.* appears to stop the XAUTHORITY
enviromental variable.  I managed to get ssh-x11 working by turning on
X11 in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config, commenting out all the lines in
/etc/profiles.d/xhost.*, changeing my shell to tcsh, then using
Secure-CRT to login.  The Mindspring JavaSSh is also supposed to work,
but I haven tested it.

If you use BASH as your shell it clobbers the XAUTHORITY variable and
nothing will run.   Fun to debug.  sshd puts a cookie file in /tmp and
set the XAUTHORITY variable to point to it.  If X11 isn't working, try
setting this manually.

If anyone knows how to preserve XAUTHORITY under bash, I'd love to find
out how, although I do prefer tcsh myself.

Good Luck.

Kevin

NO-jkstark-SPAM@freenet.nether.net wrote:
> 
> In comp.os.linux.networking Shane <jagger@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> 
> >     Just wandering, if I have X and SSH on my linux box, and I want to
> > secure my X connections, how do I go about this? Haven't had much luck
> > finding info.  And if so, how do I set up my windows client (running say,
> > XWin) to connect and use X from myl inux box?
> 
> Basically, you want to turn on X tunnelling...  Most SSH clients for
> win have this option somewhere...  That will usually set the display
> env. on the remote host automatically - if you have the X server
> running on the PC before you SSH over..  Works like a charm for me..
> All you have to do on the far end is to start the X apps - or with
> certain X servers, you can do a ssh connect automatically and start
> an app.  (X-Win32 comes to mind...)
> 
> Kris
> 
> > Thanks for any suggestions/help..
> 
> > regards,
> > Shane.

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