[Greg Folkert] > No, it will not. Strange. I've seen X forwarding problems just because of this. RedHat inserts the hostname in /etc/hosts as one of the names for 127.0.0.1, and this make X forwarding over SSH fail. Correcting /etc/hosts fixes the problem. > Make sure you understand the infrastructure before you answer others. Such big words. Hope you are able to back them up. :)