[NTLUG:Discuss] X displays over ssh

[Tom Woody]

On 25 Mar 2003 11:42:02 -0500
Patrick Parks <patrick at patrickparks.com> 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

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config make sure these options are turned on:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes

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Tom Woody

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