problems getting ssh X11 fowarding

[Christian Hiris]

On Thursday 15 July 2004 15:41, stan wrote:
> I've got 2 relativly recent STABLE machines which were originally but WP
> any X functionailty at all. Now I;m starting to use gkrellm to monitor most
> of my mahcines with the DISPLAy's all set to a workstation in my office.
>
> I sucesfully compiled gkrellm from the ports on these machines, but I'm
> having trouble getting ssh to do X11 fowarding back to my office machine
> for these 2 machines. I checked the /etc/sshd_cinfig file, and it is the
> same as on working machines. I killed the sshd and restarted it, but whn I
> ssh to these 2 boxes DISPLAY does not get set.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Try ssh option -Y to enable trusted X11 forwarding.   

hth
ch 

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