X11 forwarding over ssh with FC3 onward

[Tony Dietrich]

Thanks, that did the trick.

For some reason I was under the impression that global directives in the 
ssh_config file were honoured if they weren't set in the user's own config 
file.

TD

On Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 14:08, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> > On Monday 23 Jan 2006 21:08, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> > > Tony Dietrich wrote:
> > > > I'm in the process of installing FC3 after leaving RH9.
> > > >
> > > > I'm used to enabling X11 over ssh with RH9, but making
> >
> > the same changes
> >
> > > > to FC3 get me errors ...
> > > >
> > > > Unable to open Display#
> > > >
> > > > or similar.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Anyone please point me in the right direction?  Whats
> >
> > changed with FC3?
> >
> > > Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X.
>
> If forwarding X11 is normal for you, you can put
>
> ForwardX11  yes
> ForwardX11Trusted  yes
>
> in your $HOME/.ssh/config file.
> Some revisions of ssh need the ForwardX11Trusted  and some complain
> about it.  My FC3 machine has it on and my FC4 machine has it commented
> out.
>
> Bob Styma