Re: More SSH Fun (X11 forwarding)

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Subject: Re: More SSH Fun (X11 forwarding)
From: Ashish Gulhati <hash@netropolis.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:45:50 +0530 (IST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020702.044550.13760442.hash@netropolis.org>
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> Okay, having X11 listening for TCP connections with xhost +
> enabled didn't help.
> 
> I'm open to other suggestions. :)

Having X listening on the remote host isn't necessary for X11
forwarding, nor is it necessary to do xhost +

Just use -X and make sure the host mentioned in the DISPLAY variable
in the remote shell does resolve to the host you're ssh-ing from. Or
change DISPLAY to use the IP address instead.

Regards

#!


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