[Info-vax] Decwindows display

Joseph Huber joseph.huber at NIRWANA.web.de
Sun Mar 22 03:46:43 EDT 2009


Bradford Hamilton schrieb:
> In article <000ddaa1$0$2138$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Bradford Hamilton wrote:
>> Note that on OS-X:
>>
>>     -X      Enables X11 forwarding.  This can also be specified on a
>> per-host
>>             basis in a configuration file.
>>
>>
>>     -x      Disables X11 forwarding.
>>
>>
>> so you really want ssh -X
> 
> Yup.  Of course, it makes me wonder why "-x" exists.  Isn't that the "default"
> behavior for ssh?

No, the default depends on the (system or user) options defined in the 
ssh config files:
ForwardX11 yes or no
ForwardX11Trusted yes or no

Depending on this, -X -x -Y makes sense.


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