[ale] ssh -X won't work

[Jason Day]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:09:38PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> You're only partially right.  My permissions are not 0700, but 0755 on the 
> directory.  But, I can ssh to the server just fine, and the permissions are 
> the exact same as they are on a server that works.

Oops, you're right.  I was thinking of using public key authentication,
which requires the directory permissions to be 0700 (maybe only on some
versions of OpenSSH?).  Anyway, sorry for the confusion, guess I owe you
a beer :)

As Dow mentioned, use netstat to check that the ssh server is starting a
fake X server.  I see from your sshd_config that you are using the
default X11 offset of 10, so after you "ssh -X server" you should see
something like this:

jday:spiderman$ netstat -an
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address State      
[snip]
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:6010          0.0.0.0:* LISTEN      

If that's there, make sure your firewall rules don't prohibit you from
connecting to that port.  Try "telnet localhost 6010"; if you get a
connection refused, or if it just hangs, check your firewall rules.

HTH,
Jason
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