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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: sshd and X11 forwarding?
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:40:52PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Hope this isn't too far OT, but I am trying to get X11 forwarding to
> work between 2 FreeBSD machines, both running 4.4 RELEASE.
>=20
> Both have the following in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
>=20
> StrictModes yes
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> PrintMotd yes
> KeepAlive yes
>=20
> My understanding of this is that when you execute a prog that requires
> an X display, it will forward the windows, transients, etc to the
> client box.  And the DISPLAY should set to something like <IP>:10.0.

a) You need to have DISPLAY set before you run ssh, so ssh knows where
to forward the X connection to.

b) You need to have ssh enable the negotiation of X Forwarding, not
just the remote sshd.

Kris

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