Hi all,
Now that Jill has 'upgraded' to Debian and it matches my Alpha's Debian
it seems our systems are a little more careful of security than her old
SUSE and I am having probs with logging in as root and editing with vi
over X.
I (mikel) am on machine martel and I ssh as user caves to machine tazieff.
I can use vim and xeyes etc as X forwarding is set to yes in
/etc/ssh/ssh_config
Often I need to edit a config file and su root but then I cant use vi as
I get:
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
If I ssh to tazieff as myself i.e. mikel then su root then I can start
vi as the connection is forwarded fine.
If I ssh to tazieff as root (as I have enabled root login) I can use vi
but I prefer to just su root when required from being user caves.
I could login as mikel to tazieff and then su root but I ma not doing
anything as mikel so find that a bit silly.
Reading the man pages for ssh_config and sshd_config there do not seem
to be any obvious settings that I should change. I think it is something
to do with authentication rather than X forwarding.
Mike
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Mike Lake
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