Can't open display -- SOLVED

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 5 16:51:55 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
[snip]
>> Perhaps a -Y flag is required.
>> I'm not sure what "trusted X11 forwarding" means.
>>
>
> There's a brief mention of it in "man ssh_config". It's not normally
> needed for the vast majority of apps

My experience is the complete opposite.  Red Hat has even issued an Errata
for RHEL 4 making trusted forwarding the default.  I believe the only apps
I have personally seen that work with untrusted forwarding are things like
xeyes and xterm (as long as you don't want to copy and paste).

Take a look at this comment from Mike Harris:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137685#c15


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William Hooper




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