#574035 openssh-server: sshd_config(5) should mention that the server needs xauth for X11 forwarding #574035
- Package:
- openssh-server
- Source:
- openssh
- Description:
- secure shell (SSH) server, for secure access from remote machines
- Submitter:
- Samuel Thibault
- Date:
- 2010-03-15 21:27:05 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Hello, It now happened several times that I had to tell a colleague that to enable X11 forwarding on a server, he needed to install the xauth program. If the sshd_config(5) paragraph about the X11Forwarding option was mentioning that xauth is needed for proper setup, they would probably have found by themselves, as well as all the other admins who didn't ask somebody else to solve their issue and just gave up or (oh horror) simply used xhost +... Samuel