using x11 forwarding with ssh from a jail
Erwin Lansing
erwin at lansing.dk
Mon Apr 21 02:14:19 PDT 2003
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 07:31:33PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote:
> Hi,
Howdy,
>
> Is anyone having problems connecting to their X server from inside a
> jail using ssh's X11 forwarding?
>
> >From my non-jail environment, I ssh into my jail environment with X11
> forwarding enabled. When I try to invoke an X application, I get:
>
> % xclock
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> It works fine if I uset 'xhost +' in my non-jail environment and the
> point my display appropriately from inside the jail (bypassing ssh x11
> forwarding). Any ideas why X11 forwarding doesn't seem to do the
> right thing?
>
This has probably something to do with the mapping of localhost to the
external ip address of the jail. Try setting:
X11UseLocalhost no
in /etc/ssh/sshd_config in your jail should fix this.
Cheers,
-erwin
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