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change '.bashrc' in your home directory from:

        export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority

to 

        [ -z $XAUTHORITY ] && export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority

Solved my problems.

Dave


Kevin Rutten wrote:

> 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.
>