Re: forwarding X11 over ssh

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

pmiller@unt.edu (Paul Miller) wrote:
>"Joseph A. Martin" wrote:
>>         I maintain a Linux system at our office. Quite frequently I
>> administer this system remotely via ssh. Today I wanted to try running
>> an X app over the SSH link. I passed the '-X' option to ssh which the
>
>Just in case is was not a typo ;-) 
>
>The '-x' option disables X forwarding. The '+x' option, which is
>default, enables X forwarding.

[cjw44@riva ~]$ ssh --help
Usage: ssh [options] host [command]
Options:
  -l user     Log in using this user name.
  -n          Redirect input from /dev/null.
  -A          Enable authentication agent forwarding.
  -a          Disable authentication agent forwarding.
  -X          Enable X11 connection forwarding.
  -x          Disable X11 connection forwarding.
[...]

-X is not necessarily the default, either; see /etc/ssh/ssh_config.

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]