RE: X forwarding on sourceforge

["Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> "Andrej Borsenkow" wrote:
> > bor@itsrm2% cvs up
> > Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding, perhaps xauth 
> program could not
> > be run on the server side.
> > 
> > Do others get it as well? Is anybody in touch with SF maintainers?
> 
> I assume this it's deliberate that ssh is not set up to handle X11
> forwarding --- it's always been like this with interactive logins.  It's
> possible they've just noticed this wasn't happening on the CVS port.  The
> warning is from the local ssh; in this case it obviously doesn't need X11
> forwarding, so the bug is really that it bothers testing and warning you,
> because CVS isn't passing the right flags to ssh.
> 
> I've got rid of this by pointing CVS_RSH at the following scriptlet:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   ssh -x "$@"
> 

What about the

ForwardX11 no

in ssh_config (I simply put it in Host * in /etc/ssh_config).

-andrej