[Novalug] ssh X forwarding stopped working

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Wed Oct 21 17:21:54 EDT 2009


Michael Johnson wrote:
> Jon, try using ssh -Y rather than ssh -X.  I've seen cases where Solaris 
> systems required this, though they never worked with ssh -X and then 
> stopped working.
> 
> Mike

Ah, that's your problem ... Byte Sex. Solaris is big-endian (male), 
while Linux is (usually) little-endian (female).

JIM



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