[ale] remote X problems.

[James CE Johnson]

> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:31, James CE Johnson wrote:
>> David Corbin wrote:
>> >When I attempt to launch an X application, I get the following:
>> >
>> >X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>> >X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server
>> shutdown).
>>
>> Smells like an xauth problem. If you could see the X server's output
>> it might say something useful.
>
> Actually, it doesn't say anything useful.  But I can share some more
> information.  The problem is that I ssh to O as myself, and su to root.
> If I  don't su, or if I ssh AS root, it works.  Is there a solution that
> doesn't  involve ssh-ing as root?  (I'm not very xauth familiar)

I can barely spell xauth but I suspect it is upset that you
"authenticated" with the X server as yourself (dcorbin) but now you're
trying to launch an application as someone else (root).

>
>>
>> >I can find no log message that tells me anything helpful.  Can
>> someone
>> > point me in the right direction?  Below shows my setup.  I am
>> sitting at machine T, logged into P via KDM.  I then use ssh to
>> access machine O, where I cannot launchan X application.
>> >
>> >T ----via KDM----  P  ----ssh -X----O
>> >
>> >Thanks for the help.
>> >David

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