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).