Difficulty forwarding X

[Alex Maynard]

Hi All,

It looks like I wrote for help a minute too early.
It turns out that the following page solved my problem (using ssh -X 
host):

http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2006/08/24/Ubuntu-Enabling-remote-Xwindows

My apologies for the unnecessary post.

Alex

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Alex Maynard wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> For some reason I am have trouble forwarding X in ubuntu even though on both 
> the server and local machine I have "X11Forwording yes"
> in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. (I've pasted in the sshd_config from my 
> server below.) I'd be grateful for any suggestions if you happen to have any. 
> Is there something obvious I'm over-looking?
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> RSAAuthentication yes
> PubkeyAuthentication yes
> #AuthorizedKeysFile     %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
>
> # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
> IgnoreRhosts yes
> # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
> RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> # similar for protocol version 2
> HostbasedAuthentication no
> # Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication
> #IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
>
> # To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)
> PermitEmptyPasswords no
>
> # Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with
> # some PAM modules and threads)
> ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
>
> # Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords
> PasswordAuthentication no
>
> # Kerberos options
> #KerberosAuthentication no
> #KerberosGetAFSToken no
> #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
> #KerberosTicketCleanup yes
>
> # GSSAPI options
> #GSSAPIAuthentication no
> #GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes
>
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> PrintMotd no
> PrintLastLog yes
> KeepAlive yes
> UseLogin no
>
> #MaxStartups 10:30:60
> #Banner /etc/issue.net
>
> # Allow client to pass locale environment variables
> AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
>
> Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
>
> UsePAM no
>
>
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