[NTLUG:Discuss] X displays over ssh

[MadHat]

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:42, Patrick Parks wrote:
> I am having a problem running X applications through ssh. I get X
> display can not be opened. The box I am ssh into is a Slackware 9.0, 
> the box I am ssh out of is Redhat 8.0. Before I had Slack, it was a
> Redhat8.0 box, and I could run X programs through ssh with no problem. I
> know that it is a file that I have to enable using X over ssh, but I can
> not remeber which it is. Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks
> 

couple of things

one, make sure you have in the sshd_config on the server side
X11Forwarding yes

and make sure you either use -X to use X11 forwarding or use the config
file, like ~/.ssh/config, on the client side

Host madhat.unspecific.com
  ForwardX11 yes

> 
> 
> Patrick Parks
> patrick at patrickparks.com
> 
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