On Monday 29 January 2007 21:21, Rick Sewill wrote: >On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >By default, ssh doesn't do X forwarding any longer. Use the "-X" or >> >"-Y" options to ssh, >> > >> >or turn on "ForwardX11Trusted" in your ssh_config. >> >> That's what was puzzling Rick, ForwardX11Trusted, was already 'yes', >> both here and on the machine I was accessing. > >Do you have "ForwardX11Trusted" in your local ~/.ssh/config file >and is it being used when you access the remote machine? > >ssh should pattern match against all the "Host name" entries, >using the earliest matched entries first. That part doesn't seem to match but its late, I've printed this and will check things out in the morning. Many thanks. >The "Host *" represents the default and should be last in ~/.ssh/config > >If you do "ssh -v -v -v name", it should say something like: >debug1: Reading configuration data /home/rsewill/.ssh/config > >If I construct my ~/.ssh/config file, and have ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh/config >have the correct file permissions, as follows: > >Host laptop laptop-* *-laptop *-laptop-* > HostKeyAlias laptop > HostName laptop > IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa-home > User rsewill > >Host x11 x11-* *-x11 *-x11-* > ForwardX11 yes > ForwardX11Trusted yes > >Host * > Cipher blowfish > Compression yes > ForwardX11 no > ForwardX11Trusted no > GatewayPorts no > IdentitiesOnly yes > MACs hmac-sha1 > PasswordAuthentication no > Protocol 2 > PubkeyAuthentication yes > >I can then do: >rsewill@rsewill:~ <2:3> $ ssh laptop >Last login: Mon Jan 29 20:09:46 2007 from desktop.rsewill.cableone.net >rsewill@laptop:~ <1:1> $ echo $DISPLAY > >rsewill@laptop:~ <1:2> $ exit >rsewill@rsewill:~ <2:4> $ ssh laptop-x11 >Last login: Mon Jan 29 20:11:49 2007 from desktop.rsewill.cableone.net >rsewill@laptop:~ <1:13> $ echo $DISPLAY >localhost:10.0 >rsewill@laptop:~ <1:14> $ > >Only in the second case, is X forwarding enabled. > >-- >Rick Sewill -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.