On Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:23:08 pm Glynn Clements did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > So that probably explains where the 10.0 is coming from, but not where > > I might change it? That seems to be the $64k question... > > Why do you need to change it?
Because its not working? :) > The actual display number is determined > by the X11DisplayOffset setting in the sshd_config file. sshd > allocates display numbers for X proxies starting at that value. The > default is 10, which is enough to ensure that the numbers won't > conflict with real X displays on any normal system. > > Note that if you change DISPLAY manually (via "export"), you may also > need to update the X authentication credentials with xauth. > I recall I did have to use xauth at one time, years ago. Unforch, no man pages for it are installed, and the --help output is criminally concise. If I do an 'xauth list', it only spits out one cookie, for the wap11 at *.*.*.100 on my local network. > By default sshd will only accept connections on the loopback address > (127.0.0.1). If you try to connect to coyote:10, the connection will > probably use another address (i.e. the address assigned to the > physical network adapter) and be refused. You can change this > behaviour via X11UseLocalhost in sshd_config, but in the absence of > some form of firewall, that will allow other hosts on the network to > connect to the X proxy. X11UseLocalHost is #X11UseLocalhost yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config commented out. Does changing that need a reboot? Thanks Glynn. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. -- Abigail Van Buren _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
