ssh X11 forwarding does not work from an XDMCP session on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Issue
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When connected to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 via XDMCP, ssh -X or ssh -Y do not work and remote X11 applications fail to connect to the display with the following error:
Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xrdb: Can't open display "localhost:10.0"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Remote XDMCP connection
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