fc17 minimum install, no X11 forwarding

Darryl L. Pierce dpierce at redhat.com
Tue Jun 19 15:27:43 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:46:00AM -0700, gary artim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is it I need besides the the sshd_config to allow forwarding to
> get x forwarding to work. I did a minimum install and ssh doesnt setup
> the DISPLAY variable. When I run xeyes I get:
> 
> Error: Can't open display:
> 
> sshd_conf:
> 
> #AllowAgentForwarding yes
> #AllowTcpForwarding yes
> #GatewayPorts no
> #X11Forwarding no
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> X11UseLocalhost yes
> #PrintMotd yes
> #PrintLastLog yes
> #TCPKeepAlive yes
> #UseLogin no
> 
> Any suggestions would be great, I checked that xorg auth was
> installed, but I think is something x related missing....thanks much,

The system SSHing to the other has to enable display forwarding:

ssh -X [remote host]

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