Sshd Configure X Forwarding

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Internal

Overview

Server Configuration

Set

X11Forwarding yes

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the sshd server.

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