Re: ssh + X11
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:16:59 +0100,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote in message
<[🔎] 20030918131659.GB24193@riva.ucam.org>:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:06:54PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:42:32 +0100,
> > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote in message
> > <[🔎] 20030918104232.GB23033@riva.ucam.org>:
> > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:20:37PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > > ..."=yes", and it can be overridden with -X, is how it works
> > > > here. ;-)
> > >
> > > If the server has 'X11Forwarding no', which is the default, then
> > > nothing you do to the client, -X or no -X, will let you forward
> > > X11 traffic. You need to configure the server with 'X11Forwarding
> > > yes'.
> >
> > ..then something is wrong here, because I ssh -X all I like from my
> > X11Forwarding=no boxes. ;-)
>
> *From* your 'X11Forwarding no' boxes? The client makes no difference,
> it's the sshd_config on the server, the box you're connecting *to*,
> that matters.
..yep, I own all but 2 boxes in my lab, and have root access
on all, and I see no X11Forwarding here.
> Also, you'd only notice a problem when you tried to open an X client
> over the ssh connection.
..yeah, I was half way back to RH before I picked up the "-X"
here in DU, does not neccesarily mean I got it right, though.
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