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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:59:31AM -0600, Simon Timms wrote:
>
> > Oooh, you know I think I'm just doing 'ssh' and expecting it to work or
> > give me a huge obvious error.  I have enabled ForwardX11 in
> > /etc/ssh/ssh_conf on the desktop.  You're probably right that it is a
> > question of '-X' or '-Y'.  I shall have to try this out when I get home
> > tonight.  What is the difference between trusted and untrusted X11
> > forwarding?
>
> Untrusted is safer when you don't trust the security of the machine
> you're connecting to, but it doesn't work for a lot of X applications.

You were right a -Y did it.  I'm sure i've done this with just -X before.
Oh well.  Thanks a bunch.