[CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work
Steve Brooks
steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Fri Oct 28 08:10:05 UTC 2011
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a working configuration with CentOS 6. Can you try to set next
>> lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart SSH server please?
>>
>> #X11Forwarding no
>> X11Forwarding yes
>> #X11DisplayOffset 10
>> X11UseLocalhost yes
>>
>>
>> In fact I do not have xorg-x11-auth rpm installed:
>>
>> [root at Carmen ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i xorg-x11-auth
>> [root at Carmen ~]#
>>
>> and it works...
>
> He meant xorg-x11-xauth and I'm 99% certain you *need* that installed on the
> target machine for ssh forwarding to work.
I have a few "sl6.1" worstations that do not have "xorg-x11-xauth"
installed and it does *not* seem to appear in the repos. Yet
X11-Forwarding works fine.
Steve
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