deny of x sessions

[Garrett Cooper]

Alain G. Fabry wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've just installed KDE 4.5.3 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system.
>
> I'm having problem getting an x-window from another PC when I'm connected to that PC via telnet (with ssh -X .... everything works fine)
>
> When I telnet to the other machine and export/setenv my DISPLAY environment towards the display I'm telnetting from, I get the following error.
>
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 10.0.0.250:0.0
>
> I've already tried to change the kdmrc by removing the -nolisten tcp or commenting out
>
> ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp
>
> but this does not seem to work either....when I reboot, it even undoes all the changes I've made to the file (as root)
>
> Anybody can give me some advise on what I need to do to accept incoming x11 requests.
>
> x11 packets are received (seen by a tcpdump) but it just does not want to work.
>
> Just for you info, I did not forget the xhost +
>
> Thanks in advance.
Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. ssh -X was deprecated some time ago due to 
security concerns I believe over trusted hosts and X11 forwarding 
(Google that particular flag because there are a lot of discussion items 
out there about this).
-Garrett