For a long time now I have been bouncing around between three machines via ssh. However up to now that has always been text based. Whenever I wanted to use X across the network, I have set it up manually.
However, I increasingly need to regularly use an X program, so thought it about time I set up X11Forwarding. One of the machines is a windows laptop and only ever acts as a the ssh client (using Putty), although it is running an X-server courtesy of Cygwin. I have changed the setting on Putty to request X-forwarding. The other two machines are running Debian, one Sarge, the other Unstable. In both of these I have edited both /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config to include X11Forwarding. (Snippet from /etc/ssh/ssh_config)================================= # Site-wide defaults for various options Host * # ForwardAgent no ForwardX11 yes ===================================================== (Snippet from /etc/ssh/sshd_config) ================================ X11Forwarding yes X11UseLocalhost yes X11DisplayOffset 10 ===================================================== But nothing is happening. Firstly, I would have expected on the remote machine for the DISPLAY variable to have been set to localhost:10.0, but it is unset, but even if I set it manually, there doesn't seem to be a channel there (X programs complain they can't connect to the display) My guess is that there is some other configuration (PAM or something like that) that I should also be tweaking to allow this. Anyone any ideas what? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
