Nigel Henry wrote:
I'm still looking at the jacman problem, and have sometimes found that apps
that won't work on the machine they are installed on, will work if I ssh into
the machine, and run them on another.
IIRC I had problems initially using ssh when I installed Archlinux (don't
panic), but found some info somewhere or other, as below.
Comment out "ALL: ALL: DENY" line in /etc/hosts/deny
Add sshd to /etc/rc.conf daemons list
Run /etc/rc.d/sshd start
Now I can ssh into archlinux (this is just local, not from the Internet). I
have uncommented the following lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
I can open Xapps as user (gedit, jacman,etc), but not when I su to root, as
below for gedit.
[djmons@myhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@myhost djmons]# gedit
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
cannot open display:
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
[root@myhost djmons]#
Same goes when I try to open jacman when su'ed to root.
I tried accessing Xapps as root with Fedora 8, which is on the same machine as
Archlinux, and they open ok.
I have compared the sshd_config on both F8, and Archlinux, and can't see any
apparent differences between the two.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what may be the problem?
All a bit puzzling.
Nigel.
I don't think this has anything to do with ssh - you'd get the same
problem without it. It's x-server access. You can use kdesu/gksu/sux or
xhost. Or, in the case of ssh, you can ssh to the root account on the
remote machine (ssh [-Y] root@blah).
