Hi Kent On Sunday 11 December 2005 23:19, [email protected] wrote:
With this newer version, the OpenSSH folks changed the configuration so that X11Fowarding is disabled by default (for security reasons). Thus, connecting to my BDI-host from another box using the shell command "ssh -X bdi_ip_or_hostname" and then invoking an X11 application on the BDI-box, e.g., xeyes, will result in an error message instead of causing a new X window (with the xeyes "eyes" for example) to open on my local host as I have come to expect.
Thanks for the info - I think we (as a group) need to discuss a layout of the wiki so that little snippets such as this can be found quickly and easily. I have a couple of thoughts on the subject which I'll broach in another email.. Small side note: I think it may be Debian that changed the default for X11 forwarding. I've noted a few other packages have certain security risks disabled... This, I suspect, is probably do to Debian being more security conscious than some of the other distributions. Regards, Paul.