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I use Cygwin to connect a linux box (ubuntu server 12.04) via SSH, and I use X11 forwarding. Every time I ssh, I can use X forwarding for a while then it stops working (eg. gvim says Display cannot be opened). If I exit and re-ssh, it starts working again. And stops again after a while.
Any ideas?
sencer
Posted 2012-08-16T18:56:24.813
Reputation: 431
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When I had this problem I discovered that I needed to add these lines to ~/.ssh/config:
Host *
ForwardX11Trusted yes
You should modify the * to some sort of host pattern so it's not enabled for every ssh connection.
You may want to change the ForwardX11Timeout option instead. From man ssh_config:
ForwardX11Timeout
Specify a timeout for untrusted X11 forwarding using the format
described in the TIME FORMATS section of sshd_config(5). X11
connections received by ssh(1) after this time will be refused. The
default is to disable untrusted X11 forwarding after twenty minutes has
elapsed.
ForwardX11Trusted
If this option is set to “yes”, remote X11 clients will have full
access to the original X11 display.
If this option is set to “no”, remote X11 clients will be considered
untrusted and prevented from stealing or tampering with data belonging
to trusted X11 clients. Furthermore, the xauth(1) token used for the
session will be set to expire after 20 minutes. Remote clients will
be refused access after this time.
Heptite
Posted 2012-08-16T18:56:24.813
Reputation: 16 267
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A less drastic option is to specify a large value for ForwardX11Timeout in .ssh/config . From here.
– Frepa – 2016-06-18T18:32:58.610
1Does it only stop after a period of inactivity? Does it stop after the same amount of time? Is it possible that the SSH connection was dropped by one of the machines? – Breakthrough – 2012-08-16T19:10:52.003
apparently it was stopping after the same amount of time.. – sencer – 2012-08-18T04:44:03.093