Am 30. Dec, 2003 schw=E4tzte Sanjay Darisi so: > Wow!!! it works...Thank you Bryce. Btw, what additional things does the > -X switch do apart from setting the DISPLAY to localhost:10.0 . 'cos I > tried ssh without the -X switch for the second time and it works. So, > does it have some kind of cookie setup somewhere or anything to do with > .Xauthority file? ssh uses 'xauth' to enable access back to the display you're coming from. xauth sets up ~/.Xauthority. X11 forwarding must be turned on for both the client and the server in orde= r to work. sshd_config is the place to turn it on on the server, which you already got. For the client you can use -X from the command line or set it up in global or local config files. See 'man ssh_config' for client configuration information. Client config info can also go in ~/.ssh/config. Config option= s are based on pattern-matching for the host you're sshing to. ciao, der.hans --=20 # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # Don't step in front of speeding cars, don't eat explosives # and don't use m$ LookOut :). - der.hans