Re: ssh and X forwarding

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

H S Rai wrote:
> Today at 7:37am -0000 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
>
> >  The sshd_config file (probably under /etc/ssh/sshd_config or somewhere
> >  similar) has AllowX11Forwarding no
> >  
> >  Change that to yes and restart sshd
>
>
> It did not solve my problem. I made changes and restarted 
> ssh (There is no sshd).
>
> The part of file now is as:
> =============================================
> # Site-wide defaults for various options
>
> # Host *
> #   ForwardAgent no
> ForwardX11 yes
> #   ForwardX11Trusted yes
> #   RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> ================================================
>
> What went wrong?

I think you have to make the change to sshd_config on the remote host
and you also have to set AllowTcpForwarding to "yes". The Debian-
specific instructions can be found here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xssh

Regards,
           Florian