{"id":675,"date":"2008-11-17T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=675"},"modified":"2008-11-17T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T21:42:18","slug":"if-you-want-to-forward-x-packets-you-need-xauth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2008\/if-you-want-to-forward-x-packets-you-need-xauth\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want to forward X packets, you need [xauth]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the path I want to send X packets across:<\/p>\n<pre><code>[nightly] - corporatefirewall - internets - [server] - [desktop]<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The server only has what it needs to serve, which means no X server.  I assumed that my X packets would just get merrily passed through when using [ssh -Y].  But the server didn&#8217;t have the [xauth] package installed &#8211; without it, you don&#8217;t get X authentication &#8211; in fact, all you do get is the extremely unhelpful error message &#8220;can&#8217;t open display&#8221;.<\/p>\n<pre><code>emerge -Davu xauth\r\n(18 package installations, yikes!)<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Next I had to make sure that ssh allowed X packets, and allowed them over TCP.  Edit [\/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config]:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Match User m\r\n    X11Forwarding yes\r\n    AllowTcpForwarding yes<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m a bad person for doing this kind of insecure stuff.  Silly me giving up security for usefulness.  Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the path I want to send X packets across: [nightly] &#8211; corporatefirewall &#8211; internets &#8211; [server] &#8211; [desktop] The server only has what it needs to serve, which means no X server. I assumed that my X packets would just get merrily passed through when using [ssh -Y]. But the server didn&#8217;t have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo-desktop","category-gentoo-server","category-gentoo-nightly"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-aT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}