On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:36:21 -0600, Mike Klinke <lsomike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 09:39, Yang Xiao wrote: > > > > > you need to enable X forwarding in sshd.conf, and on the client > > side, use ssh -X -l username host > > Things have changed a little; from the FC3 release notes.... > > In addition, OpenSSH is no longer configured to request X11 > forwarding by default when connecting to servers. To enable X11 > forwarding, the -X or -Y option must be specified, or the > ForwardX11 option must be enabled in the ~/.ssh/config file. > > The behavior of ssh clients that are invoked with the -X flag has > changed. In OpenSSH 3.8 and later, X11 forwarding is performed in a > way that applications run as untrusted clients by default. > Previously, X11 forwarding was performed so that applications > always ran as trusted clients. Some applications may not function > properly when run as untrusted clients. To forward X11 so that > applications are run as trusted clients, invoke ssh with the -Y > flag instead of the -X flag, or set ForwardX11Trusted in the > ~/.ssh/config file. > > Regards, Mike Klinke Wow, quite a change that is, thanks for letting us know! Yang
