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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:17:46 -0800
From:      sk89q <the.sk89q@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display
Message-ID:  <825770ac0901252217m74882871o543027b0e32b9eb8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <497D51E6.2000904@boosten.org>
References:  <825770ac0901252109n14c9de4exec2fe3c1daed335b@mail.gmail.com> <497D51E6.2000904@boosten.org>

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I meant sshd_config.

Regards

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> wrote:
> sk89q wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using FreeBSD 6.2 and I have been trying to get X11 forwarding
>> through SSH to work. I've gotten to the point where the environment
>> variable "DISPLAY" is set, but I get a "Can't open display" error when
>> I attempt to run an X application. The remote server in question does
>> not have an X server install.
>>
>> In /etc/ssh/ssh_config, I have the following lines:
>> X11Forwarding yes
>> AllowTcpForwarding yes
>> UseLogin no
>>
>
> Have a look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config of the remote server and restart
> sshd after modification.
>
> Peter
>
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