On Saturday, October 29, 2011 07:28:27 AM John Hodrien wrote: > On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, John R Pierce wrote: > > well, there's the subtle clue that the first time you log onto a > > particular account with X forwarding, xauth prints a message about > > saving the .Xauth file.... > Sure, but that means you're looking for absence of an info message (that you > typically don't care all that much about) to let you know something's wrong. > That's very easy to miss. Sounds to me like something for the CentOS FAQ on the Wiki..... Q: Why is my X forwarding not working, but the sshd config has it enabled? A: One possibility is that the xorg-x11-xauth package needs to be installed.