X11 forwarding setup correctly?

From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma (fma@doe.carleton.ca)
Date: 11/23/02 

From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma@doe.carleton.ca>
Date: 23 Nov 2002 08:05:12 GMT

Hello,

I can't seem to find an explanation for
this in the man pages or faq.

I am using OpenSSH_3.5p1 on solaris.
I tried "ssh -X", but DISPLAY is not set
on the remote end. Of course, no xterms
can be opened. I created ~/.ssh/config
with

    Host *
        ForwardX11 yes

But that didn't help. I checked our
/opt/ssh/etc/ssh[d]_config (there are
no such files in /etc/ or /etc/ssh/).
They *do* disable X11 forwarding, but
those lines are commented out.

Thanks for any pointers.

Fred 

-- 
Fred Ma, fma@doe.carleton.ca
Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6

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