AndyB » ssh http://andrewbevitt.com shakin' up noth-ink Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:32:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Install xauth to do X over ssh http://andrewbevitt.com/2009/02/11/install-xauth-to-do-x-over-ssh/ http://andrewbevitt.com/2009/02/11/install-xauth-to-do-x-over-ssh/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:25:53 +0000 AndyB http://andrewbevitt.com/2009/02/11/install-xauth-to-do-x-over-ssh/

I just spent an hour trying to figure out why I could run firefox over ssh from two remote offices but not from a third. The DISPLAY variable was not set when I connected with:
ssh -X user@host

Turns out that xauth is not installed by default (on Ubuntu Server). I vaguely remember figuring [...]]]>

I just spent an hour trying to figure out why I could run firefox over ssh from two remote offices but not from a third. The DISPLAY variable was not set when I connected with:
ssh -X user@host

Turns out that xauth is not installed by default (on Ubuntu Server). I vaguely remember figuring that out before but never documenting it. So now I have.

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