Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3)

2012-10-02 Thread Rick
We now use ssh -Y. From the ssh man page: -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file. X11 forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host (for the user

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3) [SOLVED]

2012-10-02 Thread Steve La Rocque
Solved. Ultimately, I tried this from another machine running fedora 17 and there was a different error message: X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 This led me to https://gist.github.com/1324845 and http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=270333 which revealed that for some re

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3)

2012-10-02 Thread Steve La Rocque
Yep, that's set. [root@dz ~]# grep -i X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11Forwarding no [root@dz ~]# On 02/10/12 11:57 AM, Martin Hicks wrote: > check that /etc/ssh/sshd_config has "X11Forwarding yes" set. > > mh > > On Tue, Oct 2,

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3)

2012-10-02 Thread Martin Hicks
nevermind. I didn't see your sshd_config excerpt On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Martin Hicks wrote: > check that /etc/ssh/sshd_config has "X11Forwarding yes" set. > > mh > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Steve La Rocque wrote: > >> Hi everyone. For years, I've been using ssh -X just fin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3)

2012-10-02 Thread Martin Hicks
check that /etc/ssh/sshd_config has "X11Forwarding yes" set. mh On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Steve La Rocque wrote: > Hi everyone. For years, I've been using ssh -X just fine to connect to > our various remote machines and interact with X applications on the > remote machines via the displa

[OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3)

2012-10-02 Thread Steve La Rocque
Hi everyone. For years, I've been using ssh -X just fine to connect to our various remote machines and interact with X applications on the remote machines via the display in front of me, but recently I installed a fresh CentOS 6.3 x64 on real hardware and it isn't working. The DISPLAY environment