On Thu, 13 May 2004, Jeremy Brown wrote: > Guy Fraser wrote: > > > So if you want to forward X through ssh, do you have to enable TCP? > > I would imagine so, as to my knowledge SSH only does TCP/IP forwarding. This is incorrect. ssh doesn't require tcp-enabled X server. It does the Xforwarding (within the ssh connection which is tcp) - and locally talks with the Xserver via unix sockets. for eg: after 'ssh remote-machine xterm' - I get: # netstat -p |grep ssh unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 127201 912/ssh Satish
