[CentOS] ssh -Y X-forwarding?

Wed Jun 5 10:19:11 UTC 2013
me at tdiehl.org <me at tdiehl.org>

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Adam Wead <amsterdamos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have to use -X in conjunction with -Y, so ssh -XY remote_host
>
> No difference;
> ssh -Y user at centos_5_host 'echo $DISPLAY'
> returns
> localhost:11.0
> ssh -XY user at centos_6_host 'echo $DISPLAY'
> returns nothing.
>
>
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config is the default, with:
> X11Forwarding yes
>
> I remember having a similar problem when the xauth program was missing
> on a box but this one has it installed.

Do you by chance have ipv6 disabled? If so try adding the following to
/etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart sshd:

AddressFamily inet

Hope this helps.

Regards,

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