Forwarding X via SSH under X.org?

From: Michael J. Barillier (mbarilli_at_midsouth.rr.com)
Date: 11/22/04

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    I have been forwarding X (XFree86) with SSH using `ssh -X
    userid@remotehost', but now that I have switched to X.org (Gentoo
    upgrade) I find that the same command sets up DISPLAY=thishost:0.0 on
    the remote side rather than localhost:10.0 as it had under XFree86. I
    don't want to have to use xhost to allow remotehost access to
    thishost. Sshd_config on remotehost has X11UseLocalhost commented out
    (it defaults to ``yes'') but even explicitly setting it to ``yes''
    doesn't cause DISPLAY to be set to localhost.

    What's changed with X.org's handling of forwarding, and what needs to
    be set to get X forwarding working the way it did under XFree86? Is
    this an X.org issue, or SSH? 

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