Re: ssh -X and xauth
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:01:39PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> `local$ ssh -X remote; remote$ ssh-agent screen; remote$ galeon &` (';'
> is short hand for enter) broke for me with a recent ssh upgrade. Adding
> 'ForwardX11Trusted yes' to local:/.ssh/config renders things working
> again, but I suspect based on reading /usr/share/doc/ssh/README.Debian.gz
> that there is a better way with xauth.
>
> Could someone explain why the new way is better and give me an example
> of how actually do this please?
Have you read the bit in ssh_config(5) about ForwardX11Trusted?
I think your solution's reasonable. The text in README.Debian dates from
before 3.8 and ForwardX11Trusted (although it's still applicable).
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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