Re: [gentoo-user] Double remote X forwarding?

[Mark Knecht]

On 4/8/06, YoYo siska <yoyko@×××××××.sk> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:16:44PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi all,,
> >    This is about doing ssh through a firewall to one machine and then
> > going on from that first machine to a second machine on the remote
> > network.  Is there any way to allow me to ssh into this whole string
> > of machines and still be able to pass the output of an X app running
> > on the second machine back to my machine here? The typical error
> > message I get is about being unable to open the display.
> >
> >
> > mark@lightning ~ $ ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l gandalf
> > Password:
> > Last login: Sat Apr  8 18:47:38 2006 from lightning
> > gandalf ~ # ssh -X -Y -C -c blowfish -l root myth13
> > Password:
> > Last login: Sat Apr  8 18:50:03 2006 from gandalf
> > myth13 ~ # xclock
> > Error: Can't open display:
> > myth13 ~ #
> >
> >    When sshed into the second machine (myth13) I get no value for
> > $display, while for the first machine (gandalf) I ssh into I do:
> >
> > myth13 ~ # echo $DISPLAY
> >
> > myth13 ~ # exit
> > logout
> > Connection to myth13 closed.
> > gandalf ~ # echo $DISPLAY
> > localhost:10.0
> > gandalf ~ # xclock
> >
> > <XCLOCK displays here>
> >
> > gandalf ~ #exit
> > logout
> > Connection to gandalf closed.
> > mark@lightning ~ $
> >
> >    I am able to run X apps on gandalf and display them here, but not
> > myth13. Can I make it work?
> >
> is x11forwarding enabled on the second machine (myth13) in
> /etc/ssh/sshd_conf ?
>
> yoyo

Thank you. It was not. I enabled it, restarted sshd, logged out of
myth13 and back into it again and  now xclock displays properly here.

Thanks,
Mark

-- 
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list