SSH Display forward

ssh_display_forward.md

• Make sure you have xauth installed. (See: xauth info or xauth list)
• On the server your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file should have these lines:

X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost no

• Make sure on client side you have X server installed.
• On the client side your ~/.ssh/config file should have these lines if not create new config file and add:

Host *
  ForwardAgent yes
  ForwardX11 yes

• Then to do X11 forwarding using SSH, you need to add -X to your ssh command, e.g.

ssh -v -X user@host

then verify that your DISPLAY is not empty by:

echo $DISPLAY

If it is, then having verbose parameter for ssh (-v), check for any warnings, e.g.

debug1: No xauth program.
Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated

Some applications might require read or write permissions. Use the following command to do that.

sudo chown -R USER  ~/Documents