Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question...
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:26:33
Message-Id: 20061002182344.40190944.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Wacky ssh X11 question... by "Steve [Gentoo]"
1 Hi,
2
3 On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:56:25 +0100
4 "Steve [Gentoo]" <gentoo_steve@×××××××.uk> wrote:
5
6 > I'm unclear if the reason for the failure is the additional
7 > tunnelling... Is this technique incompatible with X11 tunnelling? Is
8 > there a way to make it work with a reverse-tunnel or something like
9 > that? Am I barking up the wrong tree entirely?
10
11 It is of course possible since the intermediate tunnel is transparent.
12 But X Forwarding could be disabled in [A]'s sshd_config. If your local
13 X server is listening on a TCP port (not just a unix socket), you can
14 forward that to the target host and set XAuthentication data manually
15 (see "man xauth" for extracting and inserting).
16
17 -hwh
18 --
19 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list