"Richard E. Perlotto II" <richardperlotto.com> writes:

> In attempting to set up a secure 8.2 installation, I have
> set the base security level to be 'paranoid', or as I would
> assume, level 5. After doing so, I can no longer do X11
> forwarding to my other box even though it is configured within
> sshd.
>
> What has msec done to prevent this from occurring? When using
> ssh to login into the server, the display is not set, and even
> if it is manually set (DISPLAY=system:10.0), the X sessions
> are not sent along the SSH tunnel.
>
> All of this works fine under a box that has not been configured
> as paranoid. I cannot seem to find any fundamental configuration
> differences besides certain file permissions, but this fails
> even when run as root.

Is the user on the remote host in the xgrp group ? Can you do a ssh -v -X
to see what happens ?

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