xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

[Christopher Cowart]

> I've used this "ssh -X" that you mention. This works fine for "userland" 
> programs, but in order to troubleshoot my particular issue I'd need to be 
> logged in as root.  When I try to "su" remotely to run the command I get:
> 
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I think what's going on is that X puts some authentication information
in your home directory: ~/.Xauthority. You might try:
$ su -m

That will preserve your environment (including $HOME). Now when X goes
looking for the ~/.Xauthority, it will find the one sshd set up in your
user home directory.

> 
> I might try logging in locally as root and see what happens .... 
> 
> But in the long run I think that if I could understand how to grant myself an 
> actual X session on the remote box then I could figure out how to do this and 
> potentially other stuff.
> 
> Thanks for any information you might share.
> 
> lane
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-- 
Chris Cowart
Network and Infrastructure Systems Administrator
RSSP-IT, UC Berkeley
"May all your pushes be popped"
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