Re: X Forwarding with SSH in FC3 and FC2

["Thomas Cameron" <thomas cameron camerontech com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Nelson" <pnelson neatech com>
To: "Fedora Core List" <fedora-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 5:15 PM
Subject: X Forwarding with SSH in FC3 and FC2


> FC3 with openssh-3.9p1-8.0.1
>
> I've been upgrading FC2 systems to FC3.  One of the things that I have 
> noticed is that X Forwarding does not work on FC3, so I'm thinking there 
> is some config variable that addresses this.  /etc/ssh/sshd_conf has the 
> proper entery (X11Forwarding yes).  So here is the test:
>
> On FC3 system I run
>
> ssh -X myoldfc2sys
> nedit
>
> which says errors to:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
> Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
> Atom id in failed request:  0x6e
> Serial number of failed request:  20
> Current serial number in output stream:  20
>
> On any FC2 system I can go to either a FC2 system or FC3 system and run 
> the same commands.  So this leads me to believe that it is more like a 
> client issue.  But I can not track down what that would be.  Anyone 
> guess or better yet know?

Try ssh -Y (it's explained in the ssh man page)