Sshd Configure X Forwarding

Internal

• OpenSSH Server Operations

Server Configuration

Set

Client

Connect with

ssh -X user@host

This will set the DISPLAY variable appropriately and ssh will transparently forward X protocol requests back to the X server running on the host connection was initiated from. Note that an X server has to run and be configured to accept connections. How to do this on Mac is described here:

[[[X Applications on Mac|X Applications on Mac]]