Paul Howarth wrote: [snip] >> Perhaps a -Y flag is required. >> I'm not sure what "trusted X11 forwarding" means. >> > > There's a brief mention of it in "man ssh_config". It's not normally > needed for the vast majority of apps My experience is the complete opposite. Red Hat has even issued an Errata for RHEL 4 making trusted forwarding the default. I believe the only apps I have personally seen that work with untrusted forwarding are things like xeyes and xterm (as long as you don't want to copy and paste). Take a look at this comment from Mike Harris: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137685#c15 -- William Hooper