Re: getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:02:04PM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> >
> > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to
> > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell...
>
> I just tried that on my sarge system., whose ssh documentation does
> mention ssh. But in the new shell env did not give me an entry for DISPLAY
You need two things for X11 forwarding to work:
/etc/sshd/sshd_config on the machine you're connecting to must contain
the setting:
X11Forwarding yes
The default is 'no' which disables this.
You'll also need to make sure that you have the xbase-clients package
installed upon that host too, this provide you with the 'xauth' binary.
Steve
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