ssh and X forwarding

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:51:21PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
>   It would seem one of the updates in the last while (maybe long while) 
> has disabled X forwarding through SSH. I am sure this is an obvious 
> question but can anyone tell me quickly (or point me where I can find 
> out) how to restore X forwarding? If it matters the servers effected 
> range from Fedora Core 1, 2 and 3. Thanks!

The server (machine you ssh to) must have Xforwarding enabled in
sshd_config, and must have xauth program installed and probably in the
path.

If those conditions are met, ssh -X servername should work assuming
$DISPLAY is set locally and you can already run X programs from the
terminal.

Lennnart Sorensen
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