[NTLUG:Discuss] X displays over ssh

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Tue Mar 25 12:24:15 CST 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:11, Patrick Parks wrote:
> > > and make sure you either use -X to use X11 forwarding or use the config
> 
> Sorry, just have to recap this, the -X or -x flags are not valid for
> sshd. By default it uses the config file in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
> Everything in this file is commented out with a # sign, so I assumed it
> was not comments, but after further looking they are comments, and all I
> had to do was uncomment the 3 lines:
> 
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> X11UseLocalhost yes
> 
> When I tried the -X I got an message saying it was invalid. digging
> deeper into the man pages, (mine were corrupt, had to download new ones,
> which is another problem I had and do not know how they got corrupted) I
> found no references to the -X option. Is this an option that was there
> before? Thanks again Mad Hat
> 

-X is for ssh, not the daemon
ssh -X host 

;)
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