[nflug] ssh/cygwin/remote X question

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Thu Mar 9 07:50:06 EST 2006


Stephen Burke wrote:
>
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>> All that means is that the IP address has changed from before. Just 
>> remove the offending .ssh folder and try again.
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> Thanks. I ditched the known hosts file and it now works like a charm, 
> and I have my mailbox back. At least while running nix here - I'm 
> still unsure about the XP side of things.
>
> This part, however, has me confused:
>
> > If you're moving X over ssh you should use the tunnel that is setup by
> > ssh's X forwarding. That'll probably mean setting the display on the
> > machine running the X clients to localhost:10.
> >
>
> which came after the XP difficulty explanation, so I have to change a 
> setting in windows? Presumably an xhost sort of thing?
>
>
> and this part:
>
>
> In case you don't know, to pass X over the newer ssh, you need to give 
> it the -X option.
>
>
> Actually, I knew nothing at all about that, so thanks, but surely not 
> for fc3 ssh right? I didn't use -X just now and it's working.
> In windows?
> In cygwin?
>
> Thanks,
> S.
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I don't remember when we saw the need for that option come in but if you 
updated your ssh for FC3, you might see it. Don't know about windows or 
cygwin but I would imagine whether it's ssh or openssh (whatever windows 
uses) and they are updated, you might see the need for that option.
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