It's only OpenSSH's sshd that comes with X11 forwarding disabled. Look in
/etc for the config files. The ssh client, however, works fine by
default.
-Matt Stegman
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Stephen Carville wrote:
> Matt Stegman wrote:
>
> > It's quite simple, really. The environment variable DISPLAY is checked by
> > all X clients, and they send output to the host/display indicated by that
> > variable. If you use SSH (from UNIX to UNIX) then most SSH servers will
> > set that variable automatically and forward X connections for you, no
> > configuration needed. OpenSSH (used by Mandrake since 7.0) doesn't do
> > this initially; you'll need to set it up yourself.
>
> Normally if you turn on X11 forwarding at the server and requests it
> at the client OpenSSH sets the DISPLAY variable and forwards X
> connections over the encryted channel. Does Mandrake's version of
> OpenSSH disable this feature?
>
