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Enable X11 Forwarding

 

Enable X11 Forwarding for X11 clients on remote X server running on

Red Hat and CentOS
 

Stock setup of ssh from redhat el 4 ( RHEL4 ) still doesn't properly forward X11 clients.  It's convenient for remote administration to be able to connect to a remote machine using ssh and run remote X clients.  Then these remote X clients will be displayed on the local machine.

To allow running remote X clients on the local machine (the one that originates ssh connections), make sure
the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file contains both

ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes