Can't run x things over ssh link

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Tue Jan 30 01:28:58 UTC 2007


Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 18:33, P Jones wrote:
>   
>> Gene;
>>
>> On 1/29/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings all;
>>>
>>> I have a kubuntu box out in the workshop that I normally admin either
>>> from its own keyboard or from here over an ssh link.  Then I installed
>>> FC6 on this box.
>>>
>>> Now the various graphical stuff fails with a can't determine display
>>> message.  I just checked in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config, and in
>>> the /etc/ssh/sshd_config files on that box and 'X11Forwarding yes' is
>>> present in both files, so its apparently something on this end.
>>>
>>> What do I enable, in what file, what it takes to restore this
>>> functionality with FC6 that worked so nicely in FC2?
>>>       
>> Try the -Y option, as in "ssh -vY -lusername boxinworkshop.domain.com .
>>
>> -P
>>     
>
> Worked like a champ, thanks.
>
>   

Those defaults are in: /etc/ssh/ssh_config

change:
#   ForwardX11 no
to
#   ForwardX11 no
ForwardX11 yes


That will make it permanently 'revert' to the old behavior.




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