x11 forwarding followed by telnet/xhost

From: Ole Michaelsen (omic+usenet4_at_fys.ku.dk)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:37:25 +0000 (UTC)

Hi group,

a quick question:

On my pc I run Reflection-X, then I ssh to a unix server (alya) with x11
tunnelling. This is fine. On alya I can start xterm - it pops up on the
local display on the pc. The DISPLAY variable on alya is automatically
set alya:10.0. From alya I have to login to another server, lepus, which
doesn't run ssh. I use either telnet or rlogin. I don't have a normal shell
there, just a program which tries to start some graphics. It asks what
to set the display to, I can choose localhost or fx alya:10.0.

But when I do the latter, the graphics don't start.

How can I make ssh on alya accept X connections for lepus - and forward
them over the ssh tunnel to my pc?

As root I can login to lepus, and using xauth add/list (with the
MIT-cookie from alya) and setting the display to alya:10.0, I *can* get
the display shown. But I need this for the user which doesn't have a
normal shell - I cannot set xauth and so on for that user.

Please..

Ole Michaelsen,
Copenhagen,
Denmark

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