Re: X Forwarding via ssh
Re: X Forwarding via ssh
- Subject: Re: X Forwarding via ssh
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:18:54 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007, J K wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Thanks first and foremost to all (esp Ben Byer and company) for their
>assistance in making X11 useable again! I've been following this list
>carefully and am currently running Xquartz 1.2a6 on my MBP. However, I
>also have a MP that's running 1.2a3 at the moment (I think), and I've
>changed the /etc/sshd_config file to enable X11Forwarding. After a
>restart (since I don't know the clever way of doing that), I tried to
>use in xterm on the MBP:
>
>ssh -Y email@hidden to the MP machine, and yet when I run
>
>echo $DISPLAY
>
>I get nothing. What further steps do I need to take to get ssh
>forwarding running? Both machines are running Leopard.
I think you probably need to edit /etc/sshd_config on the remote
machine to turn on X11Forwarding then restart sshd.
Bill
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