[CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

John Hodrien

J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Wed Oct 26 13:18:53 UTC 2011


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.

jh


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