Re: X11 forwarding setup correctly?

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker@dodgy.net.au)
Date: 11/23/02 

From: dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:31:50 GMT

In article <3DDF36B6.1000802@doe.carleton.ca>,
Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma@doe.carleton.ca> wrote:
> 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.

The default for ForwardX11 is "no". You need to actually put "ForwardX11
yes" into sshd_config to enable it.

The other thing to check is that you have xauth and sshd knows where to
find it (with XAuthLocation if necessary). 

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