ssh -X shop problem...

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 16:08:26 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >I don't know about FC2, but some prior version of Fedora or Red Hat
> >Linux had X forwarding allowed as default, now it's disabled as default.
> >You can change it, so all you'd type is "ssh gene at shop" or just "ssh
> >shop" (if you were logging on remotely as the same username as locally).
> >
> I have enabled all the X11Forwarding stuffs.  It appears to be being 
> ignored.  But as long as the "ssh -X gene at shop" works, its ok by me.

You need 'ssh -Y' for most things now.  The documentation on this point
leaves a lot to be desired.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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