On Wednesday 09 June 2010 02:04:28 Jake Moe wrote: > On 09/06/10 09:58, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Jake Moe writes: > >> j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 > >> Password: > >> Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 > >> j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox > >> Error: no display specified > >> j...@jhb5970 ~ $ konqueror > >> konqueror: cannot connect to X server > >> j...@jhb5970 ~ $ > > > > Try "echo $DISPLAY", this should give something like localhost:10.0. If > > it is empty, the forwarding did not work. I guess you have to set > > X11Forwarding to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on jhb5970, and restart ssh > > with /etc/init.d/sshd restart. /etc/init.d/sshd reload should also work. > > > > Wonko > > Excellent, thanks for that. I had read about that config option, but it > sounded like it only needed to be set if you wanted all ssh connections > globally to have X11Forwarding turned on, or you use ssh -Y for a single > connection. > > Jake Moe >
The SSH-server needs to support it. If the SSH-server does not have this option enabled (in the sshd_config), the "-Y" flag does not work when connecting to that server. If you set the flag in the client-configuration (ssh_config, note, no 'D') then it will add the '-Y' option by default to all outgoing ssh-connection attempts. Hope this makes sense? -- Joost Roeleveld
