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From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XWin no longer working for me with -nolisten tcp?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 14:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a230a79a-4af4-64d3-f97b-b1cdcf61f232@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58A77B77.7090603@codespunk.com>

On 2/17/2017 5:38 PM, Matt D. wrote:
> This workaround I mentioned only appears to work for my local X session.
> For example, I can open a local xterm from Cygwin:
> 
> $ xterm
> 
> But once I connect elsewhere:
> 
> $ ssh me@somewhere -Y
> 
> I get the following error when trying to bring up an xterm:
> 
> $ xterm
> connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: Permission denied
> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
> 

Are the permissions as you expect?  What about a chown action on the
/tmp folder?  Also if you have /etc/password and /etc/group files
instead of /etc/nsswitch.conf you might want to look at
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-18 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-17 22:20 Matt D.
2017-02-17 22:38 ` Matt D.
2017-02-18 14:50   ` cyg Simple [this message]
2017-02-21 14:27 ` Jon Turney

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