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Marcin Rudzik
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‎10-08-2004 05:44 AM

‎10-08-2004 05:44 AM

X forwarding through tunnel works only for root

Hi
I'm connecting to hp-ux server through ssh tunnel using putty. I chose the "enable X11 forwarding" option and it's working but unfortunetly only for root. I've no idea why. Thought that it's about some configuration but when i gave to nonroot user uid=0 everything started to work for him. So maybe some file permissions...
I wiil by grateful for any help.
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Marcin Rudzik
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RAC_1
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‎10-08-2004 06:04 AM

‎10-08-2004 06:04 AM

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Re: X forwarding through tunnel works only for root

Do you get any error message in syslog?? In $HOME/.dt/errorlog?? in /var/dt/Xerrors??

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Marcin Rudzik
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‎10-08-2004 06:10 AM

‎10-08-2004 06:10 AM

Re: X forwarding through tunnel works only for root

only in syslog:
sshd[15033]: error: Can't get IP address for X11 DISPLAY.
and DISPLAY isn't set. And when I login as root it is set.
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Marcin Rudzik
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‎10-08-2004 06:17 AM

‎10-08-2004 06:17 AM

Re: X forwarding through tunnel works only for root

thanks very much :) /etc/hosts had 600 permissions and I don't know why but that was a problem.
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