[CLUE-Tech] Advice sought: should I use SSH or not?

[ian]

I believe that when you get that error message either the client
or server do not have X11 forwarding turned on.

It is a configuration setting in sshd.conf

ian

  On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:29:51PM -0700, Brandon N wrote:
> I believe so, I'm not exactly sure how that works, but I get this
> message when logging in to my home machine from work:
> 
> Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding, perhaps xauth program could
> not be run on the server side.
> 
> 
> so perhaps investigating what xauth does would give you some insight.
> 
> Brandon
> --- Lynn Danielson <lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us> wrote:
> > Brandon N wrote:
> > > 
> > > You can do a lot more than just telnet connections with ssh, you
> > can
> > > use it to set up a VPN, pierce firewalls, encrypt X windows
> > traffic,
> > > basically because ssh can do port forwarding, any simple TCP/IP
> > traffic
> > > can be encrypted.
> > 
> > I've noticed that when making ssh connections my DISPLAY variable
> > gets
> > set to something like :10 on the remote machine, but when I kick off
> > an X application, it displays locally on :0.  Is this port forwarding
> > or something different?  Any X clients kicked off this way will be
> > encrypted through ssh, yes?
> > 
> > Lynn Danielson
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