Subject: Re: Toilet seat iBook (the first one) and shutdown
To: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: Erik Hanspers <erik@univits.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/22/2004 14:39:35
Bruce ONeel wrote:
>>>- Question. Now that can use my iBook to display X clients across
>>>the net, why is that ssh -X doesn't set X forwarding when connecting
>>>to NetBSD 2.0 systems? I've looked at /etc/ssh/ssh_config and set
>>>ForwardX11 to yes but that doesn't seem to help. What am I missing?
>>
>>Because the default sshd configuration doesn't allow X11 forwarding
>>anymore. You need to enable it in sshd_config on the ssh server too.
>
> Thanks. That's what I thought I was doing by setting
>
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>
> X11Forwarding yes
>
> would do. And yes, I did remember to restart sshd :-). Should I
> be looking somewhere else?
You need /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth and also make sure you haven't got
"UseLogin yes" in that sshd_config, it doesn't work with X forwarding.