<snip> > However, I cannot seem to start an X session from my "ssh -X -p 892 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" session. <snip>
I have previously reported this behavior, and not seen a fix, it used to work. The problem is running xauth under the covers hangs. If you add -v -v -v to your line above, you'll see it hang like: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-c96kVgf686/xauthfile generate 127.0.0.1:0.0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200 2>/dev/null If you remove the X forwarding switch (i.e., not use -X) you should be able to login. If you kill the X server and/or kill the hung xauth process, an 'empty' ssh Window (non-X) will appear, indicating to me that for some reason, xauth is looking for input from the console vs. stdin. As a work around, you can manually reverse forward the display, something like: ssh -R 6001:localhost:6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] then manually setting your display, in the above case: export DISPLAY=:1 Manually picking a port as above can interfere or fail if it is already in use, using the -X (or -Y) enlists the sshd on the target to find a free port. Brett -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/